Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 22 - 28 January 2015 Issue 1542

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Denia is out of the red FOR the first time in 20 years Denia Town Hall does not need loans to meet it outgoings. This proves the town hall does not spend above its income, said Finance Councillor Vicente Chelet.

Fragrant fan AN admirer of Alicante City’s exmayor Sonia Castedo scattered rose petals as she entered a Valencia court.

Accused of corruption, she confirmed that she would appear regularly on a Telecinco chat show.

Bearing fruit NISPERO (or loquat) trees have blossomed ‘magnificently’ this season, according to growers in Callosa.

Little rain at the right time has allowed the fruit to set correctly, they said.

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EU expats must renew their driving licences

EXPATRIATES who have been legally resident in Spain for two years or more must renew their driving licences to meet new regulations or face a €200 fine.

The new measure for European Union (EU) expats living in Spain requires people from the 28 EU member states to renew any driving licence they hold which is valid for 15 years or more in the case of car and motorcycle drivers (Group One) and five years or longer in the case of drivers of transport and larger vehicles (Group Two).

The new rule - which came into effect on Monday - applies to all EU expats who have been legally living in Spain for more than two years, and will apply to newer residents two years after the date they legally became resident in Spain.

Spain’s department of motor vehicles – DGT – confirmed to the EWN that any EU expat who has legally lived in Spain for two years or more must immediately renew their licence to a Spanish EU licence or face a fine of €200.

The licence changes are required under a new EU guideline aimed at eliminating the more than 110 types of licences valid to drive in EU countries and provide a standard licence for all citizens.

Residents can renew their driving licence by contacting the nearest traffic authority, calling 060 or via the DGT traffic authority website www.dgt.es.

Proof of identity, proof of

residence, the original driving licence and a copy are required for the initial appointment, plus a recent photograph and official form. The fee for the new licence is €23.50.

Drivers are also reminded that – as previously reported in the EWN – speed limits on many Spanish roads are to be reduced this spring. The speed limit on motorways will remain at 120 kilometres per hour (km/h), but

roads with a current limit of 100km/h will drop to 90km/h and those currently at 90km/h will drop to either 70 or 50km/h.

Motorists in Spain are also reminded that the fine for breaking the speed limit starts at €100 for speeds of up to 150km/h.

The fine for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is €1,000.

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INDEX News 1 - 22 Finance 23 - 28 Letters 29 Leapy Lee 30 Daily TV 32, 34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 Time Out 47 - 50 Health & Beauty 52 - 54 Food 55 Homes & Gardens 58-59 Property 60 Services 61 - 64 Classifieds 65 - 67 Motoring 68 - 70 Sport 71 - 72

LIGHTHOUSE FUTURE: Javea Town Hall wants a museum rather than a hotel.

Change of plan PLANS to privatise the Cabo de San Antonio lighthouse would infringe five town planning regulations, according to Javea Town Hall.

The lighthouse is located within Javea’s boundaries and the town hall would prefer it to become a small museum rather than the suggested hotel and multi-function room.

Amongst other irregularities, the hotel would flout a new regional law which regulates zoning policies in rural areas and stipulates the purposes for which buildings and installations may be used. These do not

include hotels, which are incompatible with the maintenance, conservation, improvement, development and enhancement of protected resources. Extensions for a hotel would also fall foul of Port Authority regulations, Javea Town Hall has claimed.

Mayor Jose Chulvi has now met Jose Llorca, President of Puertos de España. He pledged the town hall’s opinions regarding the lighthouse - backed by all political parties - will be ‘relevant’. This has raised hopes that the project could be halted, Chulvi said.

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NEWS Hard lines ONLY 8,683 of the 13,366 Alicante University students who requested grants received them. The national government concedes grants to half of them but the Generalitat approves just one in five.

Hair-splitting SAN JUAN Council voted to close the crematorium on health grounds. The PSOE socialists abandoned the meeting, arguing that the temporary closure should be by mayoral decree not a vote.

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Scary traffic is bad publicity MORE voices called for improved roads in the area adjoining the Trademarks Office in Alicante City.

Antonio Campinos, president of the EU agency known in Spain as OAMI, recently reproached the Valencia region’s government for failing to carry out promised improvements.

Four nearby tourist complexes have now formed a common

front, calling on the Generalitat and Alicante City hall to solve the area’s dangerous traffic conditions.

Each day more than 2,000 people need to access this district where there is also a school and the CHM construction company offices as well as OAMI. Visitors to the hotels are scared by the traffic on this section of the

main road out of Alicante where there are no pavements and the hard shoulder is narrow, said Sonia Gonzalez, manager of the Express Holiday Inn. Although the four hotels enjoy a 60 per cent year-round occupancy thanks to OAMI and traditional tourism, this was not the best kind of publicity for the city, Gonzalez continued.

Long way to go A VULTURE ringed near Alcoy was located 3,000 kilometres away in Senegal. It was last seen as a three-month chick, feeding in a disused quarry in Sierra Mariola in 2011.

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VILLAJOYOSA is now one of Spain’s five ‘smart towns’ officially-recognised for their accessibility, innovation, technology and sustainability.

The others are Marbella, Las Palmas, Castelldefels and Palma de Mallorca.

OWING to its success Alicante City’s Mubag fine arts museum extended the Flemish art exhibition ‘From Rubens to Van Dyck’ until February 8.

Suarez tribute SAN VICENTE unveiled a monument to the late Adolfo Suarez, the president who guided Spain through the Transition. The memorial is located in the former Parque Norte now bearing his name. victor rivera flickr

Date set WORK on La Xara’s day centre begins late April. The project has been drawn up and €550,000 allocated, confirmed Asuncion Sanchez Zaplana, who heads the regional Social Welfare department.

Roll call BENIDORM’S population has grown by 1,907. The increase was made possible after the town hall checked 26,224 homes following the National Statistics Office’s intention of reducing the municipal roll by 4,418.

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Bug hunt TEULADA councillors voted unanimously to sue a Santa Pola resident who hacked into their communications. He lodged formal complaints against the town hall that were subsequently shelved by the courts.

No choice A WOMAN of 40 was arrested in Valencia for allegedly forcing a 17-year-old boy to have sex with her. She cornered him as they exchanged insurance details after a minor road accident, he said.

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DRAMATIC: Horses are ridden through bonfires.

Fire horses of Spain on St Anthony’s eve

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NE Spanish village honours the patron saint of animals in the most dramatic fashion - by riding horses through bonfires in a day and night of festivities.

The tradition - said to go back 500 years - is held in San Bartolome de los Pinares, Avila, on Saint Anthony’s eve (January 16). Known as the Las Luminares the festival is thought to have started to ‘purify’ animals at a time when there was a spate of them falling ‘unnaturally’ ill.

Hundreds of horses, donkeys and mules are made to ride through the flames, with bonfires made from dead branches piled in the streets of the village.

Although popular, it has drawn the ire of animal rights groups, who have put in official complaints

Quote of the Week I have been surprised to find so many Korean students are interested in learning Spanish, evident in the numerous Spanish language departments at Korean universities,’ said Spanish Ambassador to Korea, Gonzalo Ortiz, on the 65th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

saying it is cruel to the horses and donkeys forced to undergo the ritual. But supporters of the event say that despite the seeming danger to animals and riders, none have ever been hurt.

That is disputed by Observatorio Justicia y Defensa Animal (Observatory for Justice and Defence for Animals) which says it has vets’ reports about treatment to horses for burns.

In a complaint to Guardia Civil against the local authorities it said it was against animal protection laws to force the horses to act in an unnatural way and make them ignore their instinct to flee fire.

It added that animals suffer burns and the effects of inhaling toxic fumes. That complaint was made in 2013, but so far no action has been taken.

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MILLION is the number of jobs that will be created in Spain over the next two years, according to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. He said that the country’s economic progress will help create these jobs and reduce unemployment.

Let off ALICANTE high court acquitted a 45-year-old woman who bought the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca online.

Although illicitly acquired, it was for her own use and not a drug, the court ruled.

Method acting JOHN STRASBERG gives a 20hour intensive drama course at Alicante University from February 20. He is the son of Lee Strasberg who founded the Actors’ Studio in New York.

Down the drain WEEKS after Benidorm Town Hall renewed the Poniente promenade pavements, these must be torn up. Drainpipes will be laid to channel rainwater from pumps at the Vicente Llorca AlosMontbenidorm crossroads.

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ALL 20 of the most watched television programmes in Spain during 2014 were football matches. The football-mad nation tuned in to games from the World Cup or matches involving Barcelona or Real Madrid. Top of the list - with 13.2 million viewers - was the Spain v Chile game from the World Cup.

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Suspected robbery was botched drugs operation WHAT a suspicious Altea resident believed was a potential robbery was a

drugs operation gone wrong.

A Local Police and Guardia Civil officer, sent in response to his 3am call advising of suspicious movements, intercepted a French-registered Audi in the secluded Montemolar district.

They arrested its two French occupants and a search of the surrounding

area revealed a top-of-the range Mercedes with a flat tyre. It was also loaded with 1,200 kilos of hashish.

Investigators suspect that after the puncture the French drug-runners probably left the AP-7 to find a quiet spot where they could transfer the drugs to another vehicle.

It was also possible that a third advance car had

been involved, as it is usual to assign another vehicle to warn of potential controls or complications on the motorway, they said.

The hashish packages were still wet and could have been collected at any point along the coast, including Andalucia, sources close to the case revealed.

The two men now in custody have police records and the Guardia Civil are investigating their identities to verify whether they figure in international arrest warrants.

The investigation remains open until the occupants of the abandoned Mercedes have been located.

Bless all the animals!

CALL him Saint Anthony Abbot, San Anton Abad or Sant Antoni del Porquet, but he’s still patron saint of animals.

He is frequently pictured with a pig, hence his name of Sant Antoni del Porquet in the Valencian region.

The saint was born in Egypt in the Third Century AD but as well as being revered for his ascetic and holy way of life he was also known to love animals. Livestock and pets were always blessed on his January 17 feast day, the one time they were allowed inside Spanish churches.

Last weekend, residents turned out in force so that pets and animals could receive the traditional blessing.

SAN ANTON: A donkey receives the traditional blessing in Campello.

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Brr!...Feeling the cold in January W

HATEVER your thoughts are on the winter fuel debate that has raised its chilly, frozen and controversial head in the weeks over Christmas, there is no arguing that in the majority of Spain at the moment it is cold with a capital ‘C.’ If the sun is out during the day then it’s quite warm, but once it dips below the horizon for the night it is definitely time to wrap up warm or plonk yourself in front of the fireplace.

People assume that because it is sunny for most of the year in Spain particularly on the costas and the islands - that most expats are happily frolicking in the sea and lazing on the beach with cocktails in their hands during the winter months. At least, that seems to be the perception that many in the UK have, particularly some sections of the media. It would be interesting to see what these

people think after spending a week or two in a Spanish home not built to withstand the cold and without a fire or heating.

The cold affects the elderly much more so than those of a younger age and it can be highly detrimental to their health. The UK’s decision to scrap the Winter Fuel Allowance for expats in Spain is a thorny, controversial issue, but there is no getting away from the fact that just because the average temperature in Spain is higher than the UK, this does not mean that pensioners don’t need to heat their homes here during the winter.

Yes, Spain is warmer in both summer and winter, but ‘warm’ is not the word we would use for the chilly and crisp mornings and nights we are currently experiencing.

See Page 12 for our readers’ views on the subject.

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Smashing time TEULADA Town Hall had to replace lightbulbs in streetlamps lining the Paseo in Portitxol (Moraira).

Services councillor Jose Vicente Llobell asked the public to report vandalism whenever they saw it.

Old route VILLAJOYOSA roadworks uncovered a section of road built 2,700 years ago.

It would have followed a similar route the 18th century Cami del Peix used for trading with Alcoy, archaeologists said.

Ice age A 300-YEAR-OLD ice store in Elda has been covered with special gravel and geotextile. This will protect it until municipal funds can spare the €100,000 which will be needed in order to renovate it.

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Winter filming FILMED in the Marina Alta, web series Sol de Invierno begins on January 26.

More than 200 local residents appear in the five 20-minute episodes of the first series on www.soldeinvierno.net.

Sol de Invierno - Winter Sun - has been created by more than 30 Valencian audiovisual professionals on a €50,000 budget and shot at 35 different locations.

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ACTION!: Filming Sol de Invierno in Javea. adventures of Margaret who exchanges her stressful London existence for Parcent after inheriting a house from her Aunt Susan.

“We are very satisfied with the final result and are confident of a good reception,” said the director Luis Eduardo Perez.

Little likelihood of Denia slipway NO date has been set for equipping Denia harbour with a public slipway for smaller boats.

Setting a definite date for its installation would depend on the degree of interest in “developing this activity,” according to Isabel Bonig who heads the Valencian Community’s Infrastructure department.

She was responding to a question in the regional parliament from socialist MP Jordi Serra who asked what alternative the

Valencian government would provide for the ramp that was removed during alterations to the Paseo.

Her reply made clear that the regional government does not regard this as a priority, Serra claimed. Although not a particularly urgent issue, owners of public moorings have not had the use of a slipway since 2012, Serra said, and must now pay for the services of private companies.

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Donors needed ALICANTE’S Transfusions Centre is running out of blood and had to request stocks from Valencia to prevent cancelling operations. The centre needs 250 donations a day to cover needs.

Cheek of it A CAMPELLO man who had cybersex with a woman he met on Facebook told the local Guardia Civil that she was blackmailing him. She threatened to reveal webcam images unless he paid her €800.

Royal choice A VILLENA shoe firm was surprised to see six-yearold Princess Eleonore of Belgium wearing their ballerina pumps. They export to Belgium, but had no idea the Belgian royal family were customers.

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Fewer accidents thanks to controls FINESTRAT registered its lowest number of road accidents in 10 years.

Road safety patrols had succeeded, said local mayor Honorato Algado and Traffic and Public Safety councillor Tomas Selles after seeing Local Police statistics for 2014.

Police were called to 44 accidents inside the town limits, compared with 60 in 2013, reported Chief Inspector Agustin Rubio.

Local Police officers also carried out 44 breath-tests, with only six above the permitted alcohol levels.

Fines fell from 1,024 in 2013 to 828.

The Mountain Attention unit also rescued 10 climbers who found themselves in difficulties on Puig Campana, the 1,400-metre mountain which is within the town’s boundaries.

FINESTRAT POLICE: Giving a helping hand to tourists “Nor should we forget the SAFF family attention service, assigned to gender violence,” Selles said.

Last year’s figures were

hopeful, with no increase on last year, although it was essential to work towards eradicating “this scourge,” he said.

Coca Cola conflict fizzes on THE FITAG-UGT trade union requested a freezing order on Coca-Cola Iberian Partners.

The owners of the closed Alicante City bottling plant have failed to pay the interim salaries of laid-off workers as ordered by the national high court in Madrid.

The same court ordered Coca-Cola to readmit the workers with the same jobs at the same factory, although the company answered that this was impossible since the plant is practically dismantled.

The employees were sent certified faxes, informing them that the interim salaries will not be paid until they occupy the posts assigned to them in other cities.

This proviso is illegal, the trade union argued, requesting an embargo on the company’s assets.

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Teen saved at municipal pool A 17-YEAR-OLD girl nearly drowned at Benidorm’s municipal swimming pool.

An experienced swimmer, she was deliberately holding her breath underwater as part of her training when the lifeguard and her instructor realised that she had been too long at the bottom of the pool.

When they brought her to the surface her pulse was very slow and different resuscitation procedures including a defibrillator were used, said the pool’s manager Juan Carlos Hernandez.

Medics who arrived with the SAMU ambulance succeeded in stabilising the girl, who was taken to Villajoyosa Hospital

where she was admitted to the intensive care unit.

Family sources later revealed that a CAT scan revealed she had suffered no physical injuries and doctors were applying induced hypothermia, where body temperature is lowered to protect the brain. “This is a way of giving neurons a rest if there has been an injury and prevents it from progressing,” hospital sources explained.

The 17-year-old competes with the Club Tenis Elche swimming club, which has many members from Benidorm, and she also belongs to the Top-10 Alicante lifesaving team.

Fire precautions in Cap Blanc HYDRANTS are to be installed in Cap Blanc, Altea’s industrial estate.

Fire destroyed a sofa store there last December although the decision to install them was taken last July, Public Safety Councillor Jaime Selles

reminded the Compromis party, which immediately called for their installation.

The hydrants are one of seven projects costing €208,133 approved last July, which will be carried out by Tyosa-Aguas de Valencia, the company

contracted to provide Altea’s water.

Some, like renewing the domestic supply in the Camino Hondo area of Monte Molar, have been completed and now work is about to start on the hydrants, Selles said.

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Straight run NEW roads Calle Campello and Calle Virgen del Pilar in Muchamiel will divert vehicles from the centre and ease traffic.

Work is under way.

Sell now SMALL landowners in Alicante City erected a For Sale notice in the Rabasa area, chosen for the planned Ikea. Many have financial difficulties and want to sell now, a spokesman said.

Small fry GUARDIA CIVIL officers confiscated 500 kilos of fresh fish below minimum size and weight landed recently at Villajoyosa port. Six wholesalers were fined.

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Camps in F1 probe THERE could be “solid criminal indications” against Francisco Camps’ involvement in the Valencian Grand Prix.

The race was held between 2008 and 2012 and the Public Prosecution Department has recommended proceedings be instigated against the former president of the Valencia Region.

The decision was taken after questioning Formula I supremo, Bernie Ecclestone and former officials who were Camps’ trusted advisers.

Camps negotiated directly with Ecclestone and decided that the regional government would meet the cost of organising the Grand Prix, the department said.

According to documents leaked in 2013, the regional government spent more than €300

million on the race. To this must be added €90 million for building and the €75 million cost of assembling and dismantling it.

A private company, Valmor Sport, was created to stage the race despite lacking sufficient human resources or material and financial infrastructure, the Public Prosecutor maintained.

Valmor Sport was headed by ex-motorcycle champion Jorge Martinez Aspar “a personal friend of Camps,” according to a witness cited by the prosecution. The company failed to pay “even one euro” and neither did the regional government ask for payment, said the Prosecution Department, which detected misappropriation of funds in the services that Camps asked of Valmor Sport.

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Benefits help APPROXIMATELY 18,000 registered long-term unemployed with dependents but no income are eligible for the government’s new €426 monthly payment. They must show they have actively sought work for one month.

Show to go on FOR the first time in 20 years no-one wants to organise La Xara’s fiestas. The local council is taking over but has asked for residents to help with fundraising events.

Gated city WORKMEN renovating the Explanada on Alicante’s seafront discovered the remains of a 16th century tower. It was part of a fortified precinct guarding gates at the city walls.

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Preparing to fight fires FIRE is a constant threat in inland Alicante despite all the local, regional and national governments’ preventative measures.

Alcoy is taking no chances with the forest fires

that regularly assail the area and the town hall plans to install a firebreak on the perimeter of the Santiago Paya industrial estate.

This will protect the factories and industrial units as well as the Font Roja national park. It will not have the aggressive environmental and visual impact of a conventional firebreak, but will form an auxiliary strip where dense vegetation has been thinned to prevent The association was created flames from spreading. in 2004 “to repair an old Scrub, brush and injustice, compensate for the undergrowth are also being manipulation of history, to cleared from accesses to combat oblivion and pay off a Serelles in Sierra Mariola and moral debt,” explained Moreno a series of fire hydrants and Carrasco. installed in the El Sargento Historic paintings on show. and Barxell residential zones.

One Font Roja plan has already had to be abandoned, however.

No local goatherds or shepherds have responded to the town hall invitation for tenders to graze their flocks in the Font Roja Park, where they would crop the undergrowth to form a natural firebreak.

Keeping memories alive in Denia THE exhibition ‘100 artistas solidarios’ can be seen in Denia until January 31.

More than 140 Spanish artists provided works for the itinerant exhibition organised

by Alicante’s Comision Civica for the recovery of Spain’s historic memory.

The 37 pictures chosen for the Denia exhibition also included prints by Spanish cartoonists as well as manuscripts.

The inauguration was attended by Denia’s Culture councillor Pepa Sivera accompanied by Comision Civica members, Paco Moreno and Vicente Carrasco.

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No cut prices for hospital staff SAN JUAN hospital has had to turn down a local offer for staff discounts.

Members of ACEA, San Juan’s shopkeepers’ and business-owners’ association had proposed to give discounts to staff at the hospital in a bid to boost trade and attract custom.

The offer, made a year ago, was rejected by the hospital management board.

“We are grateful for ACEA’s proposal but decided not to enter into an agreement,” hospital sources announced.

As a state-owned hospital it was necessary to avoid all advertising related to products or businesses.

It also had to be remembered that not all San Juan businesses were ACEA members, the same sources said.

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Winter Fuel Allowance: the unkindest cut of all

The news that pensioners in Spain are to lose their Winter Fuel Allowance has provoked a huge response from our readers. The vast majority have come out against the cuts. Here is a small selection of comments -

Paying for gold taps B McDonnell, Javea (Costa Blanca) I AM a pensioner who paid tax and National Insurance all my life. I still pay income tax to the UK under the Dual Agreement UK/Spain.

Despite this, like many others, I cannot vote in UK elections.

The fuel allowance helps but I realise that I am selfish in accepting it and there are many more deserving cases such as an MP’s expenses for everything from duck ponds to toilet rolls.

Or overseas aid to enable some despot to put gold taps in one of his many bathrooms. And large families that don’t work but continue to breed, as well as any other sponger or insane cause.

It makes you proud to be British! I’m losing it. It must be old age (or the cold!).

Insulting remarks Don & Tricia Widdall (by email) WE too have paid all our taxes and therefore feel that the allowance is a right not a handout!

Iain Duncan Smith’s remarks re ‘an obscene waste of money’ are an insult. He and his associates have not even had the courtesy to consult us in this matter.

A paltry pension David Moore (by email) IF pensioners received a decent pension in line with the rest of Europe, there would be no need for a Winter Fuel

This snow on a Mallorcan beach proves that Spain is not always hot, hot, hot!

UK vote to leave the EU. There has been a website set up to register your objection to this bill and it is http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/ 73368 and I would suggest that your readers sign this petition to try to have the policy overturned.

Fair’s fair Andy P (by email)

Allowance. I don’t think £4 a week is too much to expect. Compare that to the £250 million a week in foreign aid and the millions we pay out in drugs to satisfy addicts in prison.

I’m so glad I worked hard for 40 years knowing that I’d retire on a life-changing £16 a day.

Get a life!

David B Jones (by email) AS a 68-year-old diabetic, if I was now living in England I would be entitled to free foot treatment, free optical treatment, all prescriptions free, concessionary bus pass/rail pass, maybe some caring allowance, and if my savings were below certain levels, a pension top-up. As it is, I gave up all these to live in Spain.

I think it is obvious that by living in Spain I am actually saving the

A heartfelt plea to Leapy Lee...

I WRITE to you with rage in my heart. If the Winter Fuel Allowance is cut off for expats in Spain, we pensioners here should take the Tory Millionaire Party to the European Court.

Tory Millionaire Iain Duncan Smith should be informed (by the powersthat-be that many, many expat pensioners pay UK taxes.

Will Leapy Lee represent us!?

Yvonne Fischer, Rojales (Costa Blanca)

British Government money.

It is obscene for millionaires like Iain Duncan Smith to stop the Winter Fuel Allowance. If it was saving billions, I would understand, but a few million? Really, Mr Duncan Smith, get a life!

The ballot solution Keith and Judy Braddock, La Manga (Murcia) PEOPLE may shrug their shoulders and think there is nothing we can do as we don’t have any voting rights.

However, we do have an army of family and friends in the UK who over the next few months will be visiting the ballot box. We have sent a email to all our contacts in the UK and asked them to get in touch with their local MP about the matter.

If we all do this it should give cause for concern, as most MPs do have one eye on the ballot box.

Dodgy figures Peter Barlow (by email) THE UK Government has used some dubious calculations to penalise expats and it can only cause greater concern about how we will be treated should the

AS the pensioners that should get the Winter Fuel Allowance have paid into the State all their lives, there should be no discrimination as to location. If this is to be so, then the people of Northern Scotland should get more than the people of the West Country.

Cunning plan?

Godfree Lee El Oasis (Costa Blanca) ENERGY prices here are the highest in Europe apart from Germany, and every little money we get helps a lot.

The trouble is we are all living longer and maybe this is a way of Government trying to kill us off earlier!

Not everyone thought pensioners in Spain should get the WFA…

Moaning expats Keith Coombes, Moraira (Costa Blanca) SPAIN is a great place to live; shame so many ‘immigrants’ moan most of the time. Yes, we all paid tax and NI in the UK when working. Some boast about how little they paid then and even now.

Let us not forget pensioners living in the UK continue to pay tax (UK VAT) every day.

Yes, it gets cold in Spain but winter heating costs are a fraction of those in the UK. Are we so poor that £100 will make a difference?

Think of the savings on winter coats and umbrellas!

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Record-breaking year for airport ALICANTE-ELCHE airport has had the best year in its history.

Airport operator Aena, confirmed that 2014 was the airport’s best year, closing with a total of 10,065,873 passengers; 4.4 per cent more than in 2013.

Gaining nearly 300,000 new travellers, the success is in part thanks to the loyalty of British tourists, with 4.3 million passengers using the airport last year, Germans (781,416 passengers) Norwegian (646,029) and Belgian (501,454). Russian tourism is also being accredited for the rise with an increase of passengers by 30 per cent.

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Social boost VILLAJOYOSA has allocated €580,000 to various social programmes within the town including services to families and children, day care centres, the disabled and foster carers.

Benidorm’s frozen A RADIO station turned hit song ‘Let it Go’ from Frozen into a promotional piece for Benidorm entitled ‘Benidorm, Benidorm.’

The version was praised as an “excellent and fun initiative,” by the mayor.

Big business ALICANTE company, Hidraqua, has donated €22,000 to the APSA charity to help improve the training of people with intellectual disabilities.

BEST EVER: A busy year at Alicante-Elche airport. increased 6.6 per cent compared to 2013, adding 1,160,877 users, and international traffic rose by 4.2 per cent, reaching nearly nine million passengers last year.

Alicante-Elche airport handled 71,570 flights, representing an increase of

4.8 per cent compared to 2013, with most flights, 27,419, operating between the UK. In a bid to continue its growth, the airport is offering new services this year with the launch of flights to Vienna, Venice and Asturias from April.

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Love is in the air MORE and more couples over the age of 60 are marrying.

The number has doubled in the last decade in the Valencian Community with 444 held in 2003, rising to 861 in 2013. In 1993, there were 377 couples aged over 60 who married.

Meanwhile figures show that the number of marriages between couples under the age of 30 has dramatically reduced in the last decade. In 2003, 30,348 young people were married through a church or civil service with the figure dropping to 8,202 in 2013.

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Alicante’s new mayor sworn in MIGUEL VALOR has been sworn in as Mayor of Alicante.

Valor becomes the fifth mayor of the city in the democratic period and his inauguration ceremony was presided over by the president of the Generalitat regional government, Alberto Fabra.

Outgoing Mayor Sonia Castedo was noticeable by her absence as she was

called to testify in court the following day in the Brugal case, regarding alleged irregularities relating to the Rebasa development plan.

Whilst Valor has been voted in to replace Castedo, until the forthcoming municipal elections in May, the former Councillor for Culture has not ruled out standing in the elections and heading the PP list.

Fourth worst for medical complaints

Flight diverted

COMPLAINTS about medical negligence increased last year in Spain with 14,749 complaints recorded across both public and private health centres and hospitals. The Valencia Region came in fourth place with 1,355 complaints. Murcia Region received 586 complaints.

The Association of the Patient Advocate said nationally 442 more cases were reported than in 2013 and 967 more than in 2012.

A FLIGHT from Manchester to Alicante was diverted to France after a passenger became ill on board.

The Ryanair plane had to land in Paris after a mid-flight emergency was declared.

Paramedics were waiting for the sick passenger.

The flight continued to Alicante after 40 minutes.

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Where is my new EHIC?

By Pete Woodall (Woody’s Los Boliches) THE EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) issued by the British health care system to British pensioners resident abroad, cannot be renewed online.

That service is reserved for residents of the UK only.

To renew a British EHIC from Spain call 0044 191 218 1999, Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm, and be sure to press option #1. DWP phone lines are very busy so be prepared to hold.

Applicants should have their national insurance or national health number to hand and any change of address details, as the operator will arrange to forward a form to that address which must be filled in and returned to the UK. Once the process has been completed, a new medical card will be sent through the mail.

This whole process can take up to one month.

The EHIC card is for free or reduced cost emergency medical treatment for EU/EEA and Swiss nationals when temporarily outside their own country or usual country of residence.

It is free and entitles the holder to the same state medical care, under the same conditions, as would be provided to a national or resident of the country they are in.

In some EU/EAA countries there may be a partial payment charge for this which is generally no longer reimbursable.

Anyone resident and working in Spain needs to apply for their EHIC card from their local Spanish social security office or online at http://www.seg-social.es.

The information is available in Spanish, English and other languages.

Residents of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not eligible for an EHIC

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Gender violence protocol agreed CALPE Municipality has signed a protocol between the Guardia Civil and Local Police on domestic violence to coordinate all activities between both security forces.

It is hoped that this coordination will allow the authorities to act more quickly

to help residents and prevent further cases. The protocol was the only item on the agenda of the local board of security meeting chaired by Mayor Cesar Sanchez, and the deputy of the Government of Alicante, Alberto Martinez.

The meeting came as Martinez reported that there was another case of alleged domestic violence, resulting in the second victim of 2015.

A WOMAN and her adult son were held captive A German citizen is in Benidorm for several hours. alleged to have killed his They were held in an apartment in the wife in Orba after centre of the city for around seven hours, with confessing to police in his the captors demanding a ransom of â‚Ź3,500. home country. Martinez The grandmother of the kidnapped man condemned the events, reported to police that her grandson had been which are still to be taken by two men demanding money and then confirmed as gender they also abducted her daughter. violence.

Police arrested two men who have a history Sanchez, said: “The of murder, injury and drug trafficking. government will not rest The mother and son, of Ecuadorian until we end violence nationality, were released with police against women and reporting that they were in good health, ensure that they are although the son had been hit with an iron bar. protected.�

Family taken for ransom in Benidorm

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AS part of our series La Gente, Euro Weekly News reporter Gemma Quinn has been out and about to see what skills, talent and inspirational people can be found on the Costa Blanca. This week she met a young singer with stars in her eyes...

La gente TONIGHT Harry, I'm going to be...”

Uttering the immortal words was a dream come true for Quesada-based singer Emily Hullmann, who appeared on the newly revamped ITV show Stars In Their Eyes as Jessie J. Now hosted by Harry Hill, Emily said it was a surreal experience: “I grew up watching it and had always said to my Mum, ‘I will be on that one day.’” And that day was Saturday.

After auditioning for the show back in November, Emily spent a week in the UK filming, doing rehearsals, learning routines and getting vocal coaching: “It was so full-on, but just fantastic.”

Speaking about some negative reviews the new version of the show has received, and its host Harry Hill, Emily has nothing but admiration for

him: “He was so nice and very supportive and such a genuine person.

He was very professional the whole time and his silliness is just an act, people need to accept it’s just a bit of fun. It’s refreshing to have a laugh.”

With an amazing transformation into pop starlet Jessie J, Emily’s performance as a look-a-like and, more importantly, a great sound-a-like, opened the second show in the new series, which also saw contestants perform as Tina Turner, Miley Cyrus, Mark Owen and the heat’s winner, Frankie Valli.

But Emily is not disappointed that she didn’t win: “It was such a strong heat, everyone deserved to win and I see it as a positive thing. When one door closes, another one opens.”

It may be the first time Emily has

been seen on television, but the 21year-old has already built up a strong following locally since she began to sing professionally three years ago, winning local X Factorstyle competitions in 2012 and 2014.

Aged 17, she auditioned for The X Factor show in the UK but didn’t get through. That was tough for the teenager to accept at the time, but the experience has made her more determined and appreciative of her achievements so far: “I’d love to get somewhere of course, but I love home life so it’s all good.”

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Boat owners slip moorings

COMPANY Marina Nou Fontana has taken possession of the Fontana canal, a natural drainage channel of the River Gorgos in Javea, which has been used for decades to moor yachts in an unregulated and relaxed way.

Now, after the company was awarded the contract for the waterway in

November 2014, owners are moving their boats before they get charged for the moorings.

The company said that Aexamar partners (the association of historic canal users) will have a discount of 22 per cent on mooring facilities within the new marina area they are constructing.

Cheaper petrol at the pumps

Theatre probe

THE drop in oil prices and consequently fuel in recent months, has increased sales in Alicante Province by 10 per cent.

The average cost in the province of a litre of gasolina 95 is now €1.13, but it can be found for less than €1.02 in Elche. The cost of diesel is now on average €1.07 per litre, but at present, there are 20 service stations in the province offering diesel for less than €1 per litre.

TWO people have arrested as the investigation at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia continues.

The centre is the subject of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor following a complaint by a former worker at the opera house and intervention report by the government, which detected several irregularities in connection with alleged charges related to sponsorships.

Some workers have been removed from their jobs while the investigation continues, including the head of the centre, Helga Schmidt.

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Greater security on the beach this year as Benidorm reinforces police presence in time for Easter BENIDORM is increasing police enforcement on its beaches.

The town is to hire 10 temporary officers, who will

begin work in April to coincide with the Easter holidays.

Councillor for Citizen Security, Jose Marcet, said

the officers would be there to tackle “unwanted conduct” on the beaches, including hawking and pickpocketing.

Complaints of hawking on

On your bike to get healthy!

THE town of Villajoyosa will celebrate ‘Bike Day’ on Sunday.

The Department of Sports and the Xoriguer environmental group has organised the ecological, social and sporting event as an initiative which combines sport, healthy lifestyle and an environmently-friendly form of transport.

Councillor for Sports and Mobility, Pedro Ramis, said: “The objective of Bike Day is to promote the use of alternative means of transport. This is an initiative to encourage people to enjoy biking through the streets comfortably and safely.”

The town has always promoted the use of the bicycle as a form of transport, having

BIKE DAY: Last year around 1,000 people took part. developed a series of trails for cyclists, and work on cycle paths is under way.

Registration to take part

can be carried out at the Social Centre Llar Pensioner from 11am-1pm and from 5-8pm.

Orange alert for Gandia growers GROWERS in the Gandia area are receiving less than €3 a kilo for this year’s

orange crop. This does not even cover the cost of watering their trees, they complained.

beaches grew by almost 40 per cent last year, with thefts increasing from 11 reported incidents in 2013 to 36 last year.

The additional police support will be in place for seven months this year, rather than the four months last year.

Demolition controversy DENIA Town Hall has asked the Prosecution Department to investigate the demolition of Bar Mediterraneo.

The 1930s’ building in Calle Marques de Campo, originally a listed building, was torn down last year amidst a host of irregularities, a town hall committee decided.

The company that demolished the bar cannot be held responsible, stated town hall spokesman Vicente Chelet.

The building had lost its listed status possibly due to human error when the catalogue was drawn up in 2012, the committee decided.

Nevertheless, Chelet also revealed that there were suspicions that an adviser on the team that drew up the town’s PGOU urban development plan was aware of the oversight as he had also worked on the listed buildings catalogue.

The same errors have also left 248 historic Denia buildings without official protection, Chelet said.

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Word perfect LETTERING on a monument to Cervantes in Alcoy has been replaced, two years after it disappeared in a wave of copper thefts.

Fine to-do THE region’s Interior Department is taking action against the four organisers of an unauthorised five-day rave attended by 3,000 people in Benageber (Valencia).

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At risk A NEW study revealed that there are 33 spots with buildings within 500 metres of the shore on the coast of Malaga province at risk of flooding from the sea within the next 100 years.

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Mojacar mourns local Corrie star homeowner

Marrying in Mijas ALMOST half the couples that got married at Mijas Town Hall last year were from other countries. Wedding tourism is becoming the most important way to avoid seasonal slumps for the popular village.

Help given THE Junta de Andalucia regional government’s Andalucian Home Defence Programme helped avoid 1,265 evictions in the province of Malaga between October 2012 and October 2014, by supporting families with low or no income.

CORONATION STREET actress Anne Kirkbride, who played Deirdre in the popular British soap, died on Monday January 19, aged 60.

Kirkbride’s husband David Beckett said she passed away peacefully at a Manchester hospital after a short illness.

Anne owned a villa in Mojacar and often retreated to the area to get

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Sore revenge A WOMAN who used her keys to scratch the paintwork of her ex-husband’s partner’s car has been fined €1,080 by a Malaga provincial court.

Avoiding floods ALTHOUGH it is the regional government’s responsibility, Fuengirola council has had to put 35 municipal employees to work clearing the Real and Pajares streams to avoid them flooding in bad weather.

Fostering ties

Pulpí AVE PULPI council ministers have agreed to pay €71 million to build the 12.2km part of the high speed railway track to join up with Cuevas del Almanzora.

Van of goodies

away from the spotlight and destress.

Donna, from Donna’s Boutique, told EWN that the actress had been into her boutique on a number of occasions to buy clothes and had nothing but kind words for the celebrity, stating that she was a lovely, down-to-earth lady who always had time for a chat.

Donna said: “One of the things Anne loved best about Mojacar was the fact that everyone here treated her like a normal person and she was able to get out of the spotlight here and lead a normal life.”

Kirkbride was reported to have come to her Mojacar getaway after asking for an extended break from the soap last September, saying that her busy schedule had left her feeling mentally exhausted.

The actress, who lived in Manchester, referred to long hours in TV studios saying: “At times, it is worse than being delayed at Alicante airport.”

The actress played the part of Deirdre for 44 years.

ANNE KIRKBRIDE: Fondly known as Deirdre Barlow.

COSTA DE ALMERÍA THE Mayor of Huercal-Overa has agreed to represent Spain in Portugal at the European and Economic Network (EUREN). At the meeting he will learn about the European Union, different cultures, and fostering the ties between nations.

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New station WORK on Santa Pola’s new bus station is due to start at the end of the month. A new shopping centre is also due to be built in the area.

Big business ALICANTE company, Hidraqua, has donated €22,000 to the APSA charity to help improve the training of people with intellectual disabilities.

Missing materials THE nurses union, SATSE reports that nurses in health centres of Alicante and San Juan, are missing some vital, basic materials to ensure correct care in cleaning and sterilising wounds.

Fire fine A MAN has been fined €6,500 for accidentally starting a fire in the Sierra Espuña regional park of Murcia. Courts ruled the man took no precautionary measures when he disposed of ashes that started the fire.

Foreign jobs GERMAN employers have been in Alicante interviewing workers for a plumbing company offering a year’s contracted employment in Germany.

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Car sales SALES of used cars on the Balearic Islands dropped by 14.5 per cent in 2014 to 42,580 units. No other autonomous community saw a sharper decrease in sales.

visited the town in 2014. Spanish visitors accounted for 87 per cent.

Calahonda, as many lamps were broken during work to fit artificial grass.

Rise in alcoholism

Illegal camping

FIGURES have been published showing a rise in numbers of people who sought help to control their alcohol consumption.

Alcoholism is on the rise within every age group in Almeria.

AN ILLEGAL camping site was dismantled by Nerja Local Police near Playa de Maro. Several Italian citizens and one from Switzerland were asked to leave with their three vehicles.

SES SALINES Council has started carrying out improvements to the local football pitch, including the construction of a grandstand roof. It will soon begin paving the car park located on Calle Sementer.

AXARQUIA

More work

Record numbers

NERJA was one of the leaders of Malaga in the creation of employment during 2014, with a fall of 6.4 per cent in the number of jobless residents, according to data provided by the Andalucian Employment Service.

PALMA DE MALLORCA airport saw record-breaking passenger numbers last year. Figures show that more than 23.1 million passengers passed through Son Sant Joan Airport in the last 12 months.

Extended path

PAWS staff were stunned and delighted when they opened the van that had returned from rehoming dogs in Holland and found it full of dog food and toys.

MOTRIL’S bike path will be 12km long, once the last stretch is finished. The extension is currently being built in the area of Los Alamos, with a surface of 3,750 metres square and a length of 1,500 metres.

Tourism up

Lighting problems

CUEVAS DEL ALMANZORA Tourist Office made a very positive assessment of last season. More than 11,000 tourists

THE Andalucian nationalist party of Motril has urged the council to improve lighting at the municipal playing field in

Council award VILLANUEVA DEL ROSARIO Council has received an award from Malaga’s Provincial Council for its implementation of communication networks and video surveillance services.

Improvement work

Falling prices PRICES on the islands registered a 0.5 per cent decrease during December 2014 compared to the previous month, especially the prices of clothing, shoes and transport, according to data from the National Statistics Institute.

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Finestrat invitation to escape winter blues with spa break RESIDENTS in Finestrat can now apply for a discounted place on the spa programmes.

Councillor for Social Welfare, Maria Llorca, said the programmes offers access to Valencian spa stays including at Cofrentes, Montanejos, Verche, La Vila Vella, Del Cabriel and Benassal: “They provide an ideal opportunity for rest, enjoyment and benefit from the health properties of spas.”

The programme, part of the Imserso

government backed discounted holiday scheme, includes accommodation on a full board basis for eight days (seven nights) and thermal treatments and is open for those aged over 60.

The prices are expected to be between €218-249 in high season and €145-176 in low season.

Applications can be made to the Social Welfare Office on the ground floor of the town hall in Finestrat.

Fresh hopes for an AVE shuttle bus BENIDORM once again has high hopes of a bus shuttle to Alicante City’s high speed AVE station.

Miguel Valor was recently sworn in as city mayor following Sonia Castedo’s resignation and Gema Amor, Benidorm’s Tourism councillor has already approached him.

“Dear mayor and friend Miguel,” were the opening words of a

Objections to petrol station RESIDENTS in Denia’s Montgo and La Pedrera neighbourhoods are protesting against the building of a petrol station near their home.

Resdents say the project is illegal and is is on residential land, just metres from several schools and are calling on the town hall to paralyse the project which has already seen building work commence.

handwritten letter setting out her hopes for a direct bus link between the resort and the station.

When AVEs began operating between Alicante and Madrid in June 2013, Castedo vetoed a direct bus link between the resort and the station.

It would cause traffic chaos in the city centre, she claimed.

Spanish tourists, along with the British, are Benidorm’s mainstay and the AVE’s popularity demanded a direct link outside the station itself, the Benidorm

authorities argued.

Not everyone can afford a taxi or is prepared to make their own way to the tram or bus station, they pointed out.

A stop-gap solution of a shuttle bus between Villena - the last stop before Alicante - and Benidorm was used only by between six and eight people each day last summer.

Amor and Benidorm Town Hall now await Valor’s reply, but if agreement can be reached it is hoped that a shuttle could be operating by Easter.

Terra Mitica trial date confirmed FORMER directors of Terra Mitica Theme Park in Benidorm go on trial on March 23 and is expected to last until September.

The prosecution calls for jail sentences of between seven to 10 years for the four former directors on trial of alleged fraud of €4.4

million in the construction of the theme park.

In total there are 35 people accused of crimes of unfair administration, embezzlement, money laundering, forgery and finance crimes.

The trial will begin with the declaraton of the 35 defendants.

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Stories making headlines in Europe

DENMARK Manchester United have sacked Danish football scout Torben Aakjaer for allegedly posting a number of racist Facebook posts about foreigners.

THE Labour Party has vowed to ban high fat foods for children should they win the next general election.

They will impose maximum amounts of fat, salt and sugar that can be contained in snacks aimed at children such as crisps and cereals.

Crib recall

A RARE Jaguar E-Type, regarded as one of the most desirable cars ever made, has been sold by a London dealership for more than £5 million (€6.5 million). Only 12 were ever made - 11 are still in existence - and the car recently sold is a 1963 model owned by racing driver Peter Sutcliffe.

SWEDEN - Ikea has had to recall 169,000 crib mattresses in the US after two babies became trapped between the mattress and the crib frame.

Threats made SWEDEN - Jews in Sweden have received ‘numerous’ threats from Islamic groups following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, according to the head of the Jewish Council.

THE Federal Statistics Office said that the German economy grew by 1.5 per cent in 2014, better than the government had expected.

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Fat-free pledge

Huge rally A PEGIDA-organised antiIslam march in Dresden drew 25,000 supporters last week, but was vastly overshadowed by counter-protests.

Multi-million Jaguar

Black Friday ban MPs are calling for ‘Black Friday’ to be banned following chaotic scenes last year that saw shoppers physically fighting over cut-price bargains. The Commons motion is calling on all UK retailers not to mark the event in 2015.

Traffic time THE average UK driver spends on average 30 hours a year stuck in traffic jams, according to rating agency Standard & Poor’s. A statement by the agency said

Fuhrerbunker TRAFFIC JAM: Londoners spend 84 hours a year stuck in traffic. that those living in the London commuting area spend around 84 hours a year in traffic.

Chinese visit XI JINPING, the Chinese President, is to make an official state visit to Britain in 2015, but no date has yet been confirmed. The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, is due to visit China in February in a bid to strengthen relations between the two countries.

Jobless down SWEDEN - Unemployment is continuing to fall in Sweden, with just 385,000 people registered unemployed at the end of 2014.

Economy woe NORWAY - Norway’s strong economy could face threats from falling oil prices and deflation in 2015, according to leading bank Danske Bank.

More security NORWAY - Norwegian Jews have asked for higher surveillance around the synagogue in Oslo following the recent terrorist attacks in France.

A FORMER police officer in Siberia has been jailed for life for the murder of 22 women between 1994 and 2000 in the town of Angarsk. Most of the killings took place while he was a serving policeman. Mikhail Popov, aged 50, resigned from the force in 1998 and was arrested in 2012.

Kim visit NORTH KOREAN leader Kim Jong-Un has reportedly accepted an invitation from Vladimir Putin to attend a May ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II.

DENMARK Copenhagen has been named among the top 10 winter destinations by the travel search engine GoEuro.com.

COPENHAGEN: A top worldwide destination.

Stasi files FILES from East Germany’s former notorious secret police force - the Stasi - have been made available for the first time on a German government website.

Border pizza

It will be Kim Jong-Un’s first foreign trip since becoming leader should he make the visit.

Granny soldier

Cheap diesel

A 68-YEAR-OLD woman has become an online celebrity in Ukraine after she turned up for a military training course for civilians. Video footage of her practising drills and wielding rifles has gone viral in Ukraine.

THE price of diesel in some parts of Germany dipped to below €1 last week thanks to a major drop in the price of crude oil.

Lenin vandals

Obesity find

A STATUE of Vladimir Lenin has been vandalised in Novosibirsk to feature the Bolshevik politician wearing a red face mask and red underpants. The vandals also gave the statue a blue beard and sprayed the words: “I love New York.”

DOCTORS at the University Hospital in Ulm have discovered a rare new disease that causes obesity while studying an overweight child.

A hormone that tells the body to stop eating was inactive in the child.

Oscar nomination

Top 10 city

A MUSEUM in Oberhausen is planning to recreate the bunker that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in, saying it plans to do so sensitively.

SWISS pizza lovers ordering takeaway pizzas from near the border with Germany due to lower German prices can expect to have their food inspected by customs after a recent Swiss ruling.

RUSSIAN PRESS Killer policeman

GERMAN PRESS Good year

BRITISH PRESS Scout sacked

EUROPEAN PRESS

THE Russian movie ‘Leviathan’ has been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category for this year’s Academy Awards. The Andrey Zvyaginstev-directed film has already won the Golden Globe award for the same category.

The film tells the story of a man struggling against a corrupt local mayor. The Oscars will be held on February 22.

Secure ID THE German Cabinet has agreed on a plan for issuing replacement ID cards to potentially dangerous Islamists.

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STAT OF WEEK BANKRUPTCIES decreased 26 per cent last year with 6,420 insolvencies. Most were declared in Cataluña (21 per cent), followed by Madrid (16 per cent) and the Valencian Community (14 per cent).

CRISTOBAL MONTORO

List of shame gets improved tax results MORE people are paying their taxes in Spain than formerly.

According to Cristobal Montoro, the minister responsible for Spain’s tax authority Hacienda, this stems from the department’s announced plan to publish a list of the biggest non-payers.

Asked recently when the public could expect to see this list, Montoro replied that the government intends it

Cristobal Montoro: ‘List to be published soon.’

Spanish firms with a lot to sell DESPITE the crisis, Spain’s biggest companies are still included amongst 250 of the world’s biggest retailers.

At their head is Mercadona, which was placed 42nd in the rankings of the 2015 Global Powers of Retailing report compiled by Deloitte and Stores magazine.

The report analyses performance based on publicly available data for the 2013 fiscal year. To be eligible, each company must have an annual turnover of at least $3.8 billion (€3.22 billion).

Mercadona retains the position it occupied last year but Inditex - in other words the Zara empire and the DIA supermarket

chain have both moved up places.

Inditex is now ranked at 44 compared with 45 last year, while DIA moved from 73rd to 72nd position.

El Corte Ingles lost four places in this year’s ranking, going down from 62 to 64, while Eroski dropped from 127th place to 136th.

Of the five Spanish businesses on the Global Powers of Retailing report, only Inditex has consistently moved up in the rankings during the crisis years. This period has been less kind to El Corte Ingles, which was Spain’s biggest national retailer five years ago and occupied 39th position.

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Job plans CARREFOUR ESPAÑA has 41,000 employees of whom 86 per cent are on permanent contracts.

The supermarket chain plans to employ a further 3,000 workers this year, again on permanent contracts.

Wind project MEXICO’S government invited foreign investment for its energy reform and privatisation plans over the next four years. Spanish multinationals Iberdrola, Gamesa and Acciona will invest up to €7.6 billion in windfarms.

Poaching clients pays off LANDLINE, mobile, internet and television packages are revolutionising the communications sector.

Proof of this are the figures for number portability where users transfer from one company to another while retaining their original number.

Jazztel and Ono have been particularly adept at poaching from other providers and last year acquired more than two million clients this way,

although neither company owns its own mobile network.

Ironically, the four operators who do possess their own networks - Movistar, Vodafone, Orange and Yoigo - lost more clients than they gained in 2014.

By the end of last year, Jazztel gained 612,259 rivals’ clients, although this was a fall of 22.5 per cent compared to 2013. Ono acquired 462,570 clients, 21.9 per cent fewer than in 2013.

to appear “very soon.”

Making known the names of tax dodgers was in line with cultivating the public perception that citizens should comply ‘faithfully’ with taxpaying obligations, he added.

Hacienda is also working with the judiciary to make public the names of citizens found guilty of fraud, Montoro said.

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% C H G. -0,13% +0,93% +0,86% +2,27% -0,52% +0,51% +0,83% -0,43% +0,82% +0,58% +0,64% +1,69% +1,12% +0,96% +0,02% -0,39% -0,49% -0,55%

NET VOLUME 55,48K 165,95K 50,29K 80,86K 398,74K 167,07K 116,83K 86,75K 32,39K 114,06K 931,78K 125,13K 387,33K 2,19M 59,72K 821,07K 514,50K 3,52M

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3.569,75 802,50 415,05 1.863,00 1.671,50 1.078,50 3.016,50

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C O M PA N Y MMM 3M Co AXP American Express Co T AT&T Inc BA Boeing Co CAT Caterpillar Inc CVX Chevron Corp CSCO Cisco Systems Inc KO The Coca-Cola Co DIS Walt Disney Co DD E I du Pont de Nemours and Co XOM Exxon Mobil Corp GE General Electric Co GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc HD Home Depot Inc IBM International Business Machine...

INTC Intel Corp JNJ Johnson & Johnson JPM JPMorgan Chase and Co MCD McDonald's Corp MRK Merck & Co Inc MSFT Microsoft Corp NKE Nike Inc PFE Pfizer Inc PG Procter & Gamble Co TRV Travelers Companies Inc UTX United Technologies Corp UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc VZ Verizon Communications Inc V Visa Inc WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc

PRICE CHANGE %CHANGE VOLUME 162.00 86.04 33.80 130.78 83.86 105.12 27.68 42.53 95.18 74.25 91.12 23.59 177.23 104.12 157.14 36.45 104.04 55.93 91.49 63.03 46.24 92.99 32.80 91.25 106.54 116.15 105.77 47.99 254.95 86.77

+2.34 +0.16 +0.54 +0.64 -0.46 +2.45 +0.27 +0.15 +0.83 +1.10 +2.16 +0.01 -1.26 +3.11 +2.57 +0.26 +1.55 +0.94 +0.11 +1.15 +0.76 +0.18 +0.40 +1.39 +2.33 +2.63 +1.31 +0.89 +1.82 -0.61

+1.47% +0.19% +1.62% +0.49% -0.55% +2.39% +0.99% +0.35% +0.88% +1.50% +2.43% +0.04% -0.71% +3.08% +1.66% +0.72% +1.51% +1.71% +0.12% +1.86% +1.67% +0.19% +1.23% +1.55% +2.24% +2.32% +1.25% +1.89% +0.72% -0.70%

2.3M 6.8M 37.5M 4.4M 10.4M 12.6M 26.7M 15.1M 6.1M 3.8M 17.7M 49.8M 5.1M 6.4M 5.8M 62.8M 14.1M 29.4M 6.9M 11.4M 35.7M 4.4M 23.9M 8.8M 2.1M 5.8M 6.0M 18.1M 2.8M 8.4M

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$ 27.66 $ 19.62 $ 6.72 $ 6.67 $ 26.90 $ 14 $ 20.20 $ 82.66 $ 5.99 $ 2.78 $ 50.14

9.29 ▲ 50.57% 5.13 ▲ 35.40% 1.25 ▲ 22.85% 0.90 ▲ 15.60% 3.60 ▲ 15.45% 1.87 ▲ 15.42% 2.55 ▲ 14.45% 10.24 ▲ 14.14% 0.70 ▲ 13.23% 0.3072 ▲ 12.42% 5.54 ▲ 12.42%

Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc. $ 6.19 Cathay General Bancorp $ 5.5094 VelocityShares 3x Inverse Silver ETN $ 49.20 TESSCO Technologies Incorporated $ 24.01 Escalera Resources Co. $ 9.705 Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $ 12.21 Educational Development Corporation $ 4.40 NeuroDerm Ltd. $ 11.01 QAD Inc. $ 19.30 QAD Inc. $ 16 China Mobile Games and Ent Gr Limtd $ 17.54

4.14 ▼ 40.08% 1.0206 ▼ 15.63% 8.187 ▼ 14.27% 2.80 ▼ 10.44% 0.995 ▼ 9.30% 1.19 ▼ 8.88% 0.425 ▼ 8.81% 1.06 ▼ 8.78% 1.79 ▼ 8.49% 1.3601 ▼ 7.83% 1.49 ▼ 7.83%

Most Advanced Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. Courier Corporation E2open, Inc. Empire Resorts, Inc. VelocityShares 3x Long Silver ETN Flamel Technologies S.A. Depomed, Inc. Kite Pharma, Inc. Approach Resources Inc. Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. Juno Therapeutics, Inc.

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C O M PA N Y Centrica Coca Cola HBC AG Compass CRH Diageo Direct Line Dixons Carphone Easyjet Experian Fresnillo Friends Life Group G4S GKN Glaxosmithkline Glencore Xstrata Hammerson Hargreaves Lansdown HSBC IAG IMI Imperial Tobacco Intercontinental Hotels Intertek Intu Properties ITV Johnson Matthey Kingfisher Land Securities Legal&General Lloyds London Stock Exchge Marks&Spencer Meggitt Mondi Morrison National Grid Next Old Mutual Pearson Persimmon Petrofac Prudential Randgold RBS PLC Reckitt Benckiser Reed Elsevier Rio Tinto Rolls-Royce Royal Dutch Shell A Royal Dutch Shell B Royal Mail RSA Insurance Sabmiller Sage Group Sainsbury Schroders Severn Trent Shire SKY PLC Smith&Nephew Smiths Group Sports Direct SSE St James'S Place Standard Chartered Standard Life Taylor Wimpey Tesco Travis Perkins TUI AG Tullow Oil Unilever United Utilities Vodafone Group PLC Weir Group Whitbread Wolseley WPP

PRICE(P) CHANGE 266,15 +1,25 1.092,0 +15,0 1.102,00 +9,00 1.529,00 +21,00 1.899,75 +8,25 307,90 +2,40 434,20 +6,70 1.608,00 +8,00 1.141,00 -4,00 889,75 +5,25 384,40 +2,90 280,45 +0,95 361,25 +5,35 1.440,00 +9,00 253,00 +0,45 653,25 +3,75 933,50 -2,00 598,40 +4,40 493,05 +1,75 1.238,50 +6,50 2.922,50 +30,50 2.620,50 +19,50 2.344,00 -7,00 344,65 -0,35 221,60 +2,00 3.467,50 +16,50 322,30 +4,30 1.242,00 +8,00 252,15 +1,75 74,485 +0,045 2.267,00 +12,00 455,00 +0,90 509,50 +0,50 1.072,00 +9,00 193,15 +0,45 918,80 +1,90 6.862,50 +7,50 192,80 +1,10 1.236,50 +15,50 1.454,50 +5,50 615,75 +6,25 1.506,50 +7,00 5.385,00 -5,00 366,10 +3,10 5.407,50 +32,50 1.101,00 -1,00 2.856,50 -32,00 867,50 +6,50 2.102,25 -0,25 2.172,00 +4,50 429,50 -1,70 449,950 +2,150 3.399,50 +10,00 469,10 -0,10 259,25 +2,45 2.653,00 +20,00 2.138,00 +11,00 4.728,00 +29,00 920,75 +0,25 1.187,00 +11,00 1.094,00 +6,00 733,50 +8,50 1.498,50 +1,50 797,00 +7,50 908,80 +8,20 397,80 +3,80 125,15 +0,15 225,20 +6,15 1.823,50 +39,50 1.119,00 +5,00 368,30 +3,60 2.756,00 +9,00 967,00 +2,50 231,00 +3,20 1.680,50 -6,50 4.792,50 +23,50 3.637,00 +5,00 1.400,50 +15,50

% C H G. +0,47% +1,39% +0,82% +1,39% +0,44% +0,79% +1,57% +0,50% -0,35% +0,59% +0,76% +0,34% +1,50% +0,63% +0,18% +0,58% -0,21% +0,74% +0,36% +0,53% +1,05% +0,75% -0,30% -0,10% +0,91% +0,48% +1,35% +0,65% +0,70% +0,06% +0,53% +0,20% +0,10% +0,85% +0,23% +0,21% +0,11% +0,57% +1,27% +0,38% +1,03% +0,47% -0,09% +0,85% +0,60% -0,09% -1,11% +0,75% -0,01% +0,21% -0,39% +0,48% +0,30% -0,02% +0,95% +0,76% +0,52% +0,62% +0,03% +0,94% +0,55% +1,17% +0,10% +0,95% +0,91% +0,96% +0,12% +2,81% +2,21% +0,45% +0,99% +0,33% +0,26% +1,40% -0,39% +0,49% +0,14% +1,12%

VOLUME 439,16K 27,03K 113,55K 66,75K 270,10K 125,72K 299,29K 56,91K 176,53K 85,11K 495,67K 162,38K 139,40K 551,87K 3,40M 117,24K 148,30K 1,57M 363,31K 23,28K 180,43K 14,14K 33,67K 234,96K 444,08K 11,18K 510,82K 56,36K 536,48K 7,09M 14,21K 248,33K 102,47K 46,97K 544,25K 366,82K 24,41K 525,16K 132,91K 32,93K 94,41K 269,34K 73,30K 379,11K 92,98K 490,96K 604,38K 205,15K 333,16K 361,13K 52,02K 103,44K 154,53K 50,63K 343,21K 8,73K 28,06K 67,64K 235,68K 131,87K 16,61K 35,13K 148,46K 32,49K 423,45K 126,07K 1,78M 5,62M 76,56K 6,23K 740,92K 554,21K 44,48K 3,26M 28,36K 15,01K 26,88K 234,53K

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Get ahead by thinking ahead THE scariest words a new boss or manager can say are: “There are going to be changes here.” Such fatal words causes employees to freak out. Don’t panic; many bosses refuse to embrace change too.

I speak from experience. Very much technophobic, I resisted when, during the 1980s, my wife suggested I consider the pluses a PC had over a typewriter. Impressed, I went through the learning curve and bless the day she persuaded me to embrace change.

Many businesses are held back by their owner’s reluctance to take advantage of change. I recall a managing director spelling out the

Talking shop Mike Walsh Mike Walsh was for 20 years Regional Assessment Manager for the Guild of Master Craftsmen, Britain’s biggest quality assurance body for businesses.

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difference in American and British business attitudes.

Previously Marketing Director of an American corporation, he explained: “In America, when a salesman suggests something new, an appointment is made and the proposal

considered. If the boss likes it, he acts decisively. If he doesn’t, he says no.

“Here,” the executive told me, “the hardest bit is getting a boss to even see you.”

A favourite cartoon depicts a sales rep trying to grab the attention of a medieval king directing a battle in which arrows are being exchanged.

The salesman has on offer a Gatling machine gun and boxes of ammunition. A short burst would be a game changer. Alas, the king is too busy to see him.

During the 80s, few retailers accepted plastic. I did and business improved by 40 per cent. Vainly I tried

to convince a retailer to follow my example. He was dismissive and soon afterwards his business collapsed. A nearby retailer, selling similar items, told me that 90 per cent of her business was done on credit or debit cards.

It was the same when cash-points were first offered to retailers and petrol stations. A convenience store owner who had installed a cash-point told me that it made more money than the rest of the shop.

Others couldn’t or wouldn’t see it.

Now, years later, the same retailers caught on and they now swear by them. Businesses too are peer led.

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ADAM GREGOR

Let your natural soft skills do the talking Loose change A look at finance for females

Jane Plunkett jane.plunkett@euroweeklynews.com

GETTING a job these days is a tough thing to achieve. And even more so if you feel that your CV doesn’t scream, “hire me.” Maybe you’ve been out of work for a few years while raising a family. Maybe you never went to university and don’t have fancy titles or qualifications to put down on paper, or perhaps you just weren’t very good at school. But this doesn’t mean that you don’t have skills and aren’t worth hiring. So how do you jazz up your CV to let employers know that you are a good choice?

According to business experts, degrees and qualifications aren’t the only

employers are looking for.

Personal skills such as ‘good communication,’ ‘organisation,’ ‘time management,’ ‘being a team player’ or ‘having leadership tendencies’ are just as essential within a work setting as are qualifications.

The more skills you possess, the more employable you will become

POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES: It’s not just qualifications that count. things that employers look for, so you shouldn’t be scared away from applying for positions.

Of course, a university

degree or experience is great on a CV, but if you lack these things, then just fill the gaps with real skills that real

A lot of potential employees look great on paper, with excellent degrees, but when you ask them to communicate, they really struggle. While some workers are promoted because they are technically competent, but this doesn’t automatically mean they have the skills to engage and motivate a team. Therefore, it’s important to remember that academic skills and soft

Exactly who pays to fix the pipe?

Q. Under the Horizontal Law, do the gardens of the townhouses within the Community belong to the owners of each property or to the Community which allows the owners the right to use them as their private land ?

In the case of a damaged water pipe or electric line feeding the property, is the owner responsible for the

repair or the Community?

I should think that the Community is responsible for the services from the central meter position to the point of entry to the property. Perhaps different insurance companies hold differing views on this.

R.B. (Costa Blanca)

You and the Law in Spain

By David Searl

A. First, you are correct to point out that the gardens are in fact the property of the Community, which assigns the exclusive use to each owner. It is the same for terraces. All those apartment terraces do not really belong to the apartment owners. The completely private property ends at the exterior wall of the structure.

The basic legal doctrine for electric, water or gas services is that from the main line to the meter, the company is responsible for maintenance and repair.

From the meter into the consumer’s property, the owner is responsible. Now you suppose that, if the Community is the real owner of this pipe, they must be

responsible for its upkeep. But no, the Spanish courts have routinely ruled that ‘exclusive use’ means the individual

owner is obligated to pay to fix the broken line from the meter to his property.

And, yes, in those Communities where the meters for water or electricity are grouped in a central location, this means long pipelines to each individual flat or house. This makes it easy for the meterreaders, but increases the owner’s risk.

In real life, if you had followed us closely over the last few months, you would have seen differing outcomes, just as you suggest.

In one case, the Community accepted responsibility with no problem. They paid for the repair. However, in another case, the owner had to pay.

There are two steps you can take. You can propose to the Community at the AGM that they install individual meters at the entrance to each property, or that they formally accept responsibility for the maintenance. You can also make sure your insurance will cover you.

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana & Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

skills are as important as each other, so highlight yours.

If you lack actual working experience, then demonstrate how in your day-to-day life you may have developed and gained skill-sets.

Find examples and be able to talk about them with confidence.

For example, a mother, wanting to go back to work, could illustrate how juggling three kids and running a home has equipped her with Bondlike multi-tasking abilities, and patience.

And finally, to make yourself more employable, brush up on computer skills to show that you really understand spreadsheets and how to produce a killer presentation.

Stay informed about your chosen profession. Organise some impressive references from former employers or teachers, and learn some new skills. The more skills you possess, the more employable you will become.

BUSINESS EXTRA

Too cheap OLIVE oil sector trade union UPA accused supermarkets of selling the product as a loss-leader. They charge a few cents over €3 for a litre of extra virgin oil which costs that much to produce while three and five-litre carafes work out at an unrealistic €2.64 a litre, UPA lamented.

Money back A MADRID court ordered Barclays to pay €330,030 compensation plus €3,424 commission to a married couple, both pensioners, who were mis-sold structured bonds. Although this was done without criminal or fraudulent intent, the couple, who were uninformed countrypeople, were not adequately warned of the financial risks involved, a judge ruled.

Come fly with me CENTRAL AMERICAN countries hope to persuade Iberia to open or renew routes from Spain. These include Honduras, which has not had a direct link with Spain since 2000, as well as Montevideo (Uruguay) or Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) which hopes to recover routes lost during Iberia’s restructuring and redundancies of 2013.

OPINION & COMMENT

Yes please, Mr Darcy, a bit of romance for me I READ with interest and dismay Colin Bird’s disrespectful article about Jane Austen.

She wrote in times when ladies were expected to behave themselves until marriage and men had to wait.

Fluttering hearts and heaving bosoms, bonnets and handkerchiefs were not to be sniffed at.

A gel who allowed more than a peck on the cheek was ruined and the man might be forced to marry her to preserve his own honour.

So none of this “I’ll still respect you in the morning and of course you won’t get pregnant” business for Lizzie Bennett. I mean, look what happened to silly Lydia!

There’s not a lady of my acquaintance who would not have a flutter on Mr Darcy so I can only presume that there’s an element of jealousy, Mr Bird. I ask in all seriousness, when did you last gallop across the moors on your trusty steed to rescue your princess from a soaking in a storm?

So, yes, of course Jane’s novels have modern men huffing with frustration, but we gels like a bit of romance before surrendering to manly arms with a sigh of ecstasy. Having said that, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a man in wet keks...

Suzanne Stokes (by email)

No vacancies BILL CAMPBELL’S letter needs a response.

As a member of the EU we are not allowed to make a trade deal with China, never mind Australia.

England (not the UK) has now overtaken Netherlands as the most densely-populated country in Europe.

With the EU’s free movement of labour how can we ever invest sufficiently in public services with net immigration of 266,000 a year? What would be an acceptable limit to immigration for Bill Campbell? Half-a-million? A million?

The EU is undemocratic, corrupt and staffed by failed

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national politicians. We must leave.

Roger Page, Mojacar Playa (Almeria)

Gasman con TWO men presented themselves as representatives of a firm called Fenosa Gas Natural.

They said they had to test all outlets and came into my kitchen where one man produced a meter to test them. He remained there, talking to me and getting lots of information: was I living alone, was this a holiday home or did I live here all year round?

The other man said he was going to another house but in fact he was in my bedroom, ransacking it. He took all my money, plus he emptied my jewellery box. They insisted I get my passport to complete their forms and asked for €125 to pay for the inspection.

I said I hadn’t got it and they suggested I go to the bank to withdraw it. I said this wasn’t possible and they said they would come back in two days to collect it.

They now had sufficient information about my passport, my address and my signature for identity theft. They shook hands

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and wished me a ‘Happy New Year.’

Readers, watch out for them.

Jean Smith (by email)

Easy prey I WOULD like to warn drivers about parking their vehicles near or outside the Mercadona supermarket in Nueva Torrequebrada, Benalmadena Costa.

I have been towed away from this location even though there are no yellow lines where I parked, no signs to say it is a restricted area and no indication that this is a tow-away zone.

I am very annoyed that the authorities find it an easy location for making more money and preying on unsuspecting, law-

abiding road users. If they want us all to join the Padron so that more money is provided for the area, they should consider that this type of behaviour is not helping but only making us very angry.

A formal warning under the windscreen wiper would sort this out without heavy fines being imposed for a first bewildering offence.

Rob Turner (by email)

Cold comfort DEAR Mr Cameron, I’m addressing this to you and although I know you will never read it, it just makes me feel better.

I am an expat living in Spain but you are probably not aware or even care that winters here can get very cold. Have you ever been here in winter? No, thought not.

Homes are built to be cool, not warm, and the heating for my home is a Butano gas fire. This time of year one canister lasts around 10 days and my heating allowance paid for these.

Not only do we have the least generous state pension in Europe which, I might add, I have paid into all my working life, but now you have stolen £200 off me.

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Was it to pay for that lady’s 12th child or to help pay for the wedding of the couple too fat to work?

But of course expats don’t have a vote, do we?

Bob Heaven (ex-Tory) Busot (Alicante)

Weeded out VOLUNTEERS of La Mata began a project of removing invasive plants in 2011.

When we cleared an area in Torreta 3, each plant had to be dug out individually by hand and the debris put into plastic bags and disposed of in a specific place so as not to spread the seeds or roots.

What the town hall appears to have done in the Mi Sol area is tear over the ground willy-nilly with a machine, leaving all the debris where it fell, an excellent way to spread the invasive plants even further.

We, the Volunteers of La Mata, have an ongoing project of replanting the cleared areas, as well as our normal job of vigilance with regard to dogs off leads, rubbish etc, and are supposed to be helping in the Torreta 3 project.

It would be nice if the media could be made aware of the fact that a small group of expats has been working for 12 years to look after this national park.

Jenny Dodd (by email)

Life sentences ANYBODY know where Mark Chapman is, the convicted murderer who killed John Lennon in New York 34 years ago last December?

Answer: in the ‘slammer’ where he’ll most likely spend the rest of his life. Some individuals should be kept off the streets for everyone else’s safety.

Even Chapman didn’t murder 24 innocent victims, as did Ines del Rio here in Spain. However, due to a ridiculously unjust edict recently proclaimed by Strasbourg (the Parot Doctrine), Spain has been compelled to release Del Río and other mass murderers. Its sovereignty and penal system of justice have been obliterated in one fell swoop!

Richard M McBride, Benidorm (Alicante)

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jan kranendonk

RIP to the latest victims LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT

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OME 30 years ago I warned that the next world conflict would be against Islam extremism. Naturally my views were brushed aside as another of ‘Leapy’s rants.’ I also forewarned if the authorities didn’t wake up to the threat it would be too late; because the enemy would be ensconced everywhere. Well, the authorities didn’t and the enemy is.

In towns and cities all over the civilized world there are thousands of Islamic terrorist cells, planning and awaiting instructions to create mayhem and slaughter from within. If we had been infiltrated on this scale by the Nazis before the Second World War we would have been wiped out. I also see that prison ‘radicalisation’ is now (at last) becoming a worry. This was actually the situation which first alerted me to related problems that could ensue in the future.

During my incarceration in ‘76, I observed at first hand the type of violent thugs and

ISLAM EXTREMISM: The authorities need to wake up to the threat. criminals that were being converted to Islam. Coupled with the almost fanatic following of the religion I had experienced from living in a Muslim country for eight years, the selection of these radical new converts somehow set off alarm bells. As far as I could see there were no pacifists or peaceful individuals being encouraged

to join these sects, just dangerous men with low intellect and most of them doing time for acts of violence. Unless there were dubious plans for the future of these men, it didn’t make any sense. So the old Leapers assumptions weren’t the senseless ravings of an old senile pop singer, but common sense deductions of a

number of situations as I interpreted them. And if I could see it, why couldn’t our highly remunerated security experts?

I also find the reactions of the so called moderate Muslims a bit low key. One can only compare them to the German and Irish pacifists who voiced their dissent in shadowy cafés, with their names withheld and these days with their faces pixel’d out. To be taken seriously these people need to bury their fears and, if great numbers of them do indeed exist, rise up together. Jam the streets with thousands of Muslims decrying and condemning these vicious inhuman atrocities. Just see the support you get from the millions of your fellow human beings who believe in democracy and free speech - whatever their religious leanings. Somehow I fear that is not exactly the plot is it.? Well as far as I’m concerned, if you don’t condemn something, then you condone it.

May all those killed in these latest atrocities RIP. I rather put my money on you inhabiting the halls of paradise than those who put you there.

‘Je Suis Charlie.’

Keep the faith.

Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com

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Something in my eye, but not stars!

Colin Bird Each week, Colin brings his slightly off-the-wall view of the world to the pages of EWN in his own irreverent style.

I

am not a television critic, but I find myself constantly whinging about recent offerings on the box. It’s not that my eyes are wide screen HD ready jobs, but on the occasions I do sit down and watch a bit of telly, there seems to be something showing that raises my hackles or has me slopping my beer in exasperation.

Now once again I am itching to comment on something that was broadcast last week - the new series of Stars in Their Eyes. To be precise, Harry Hill’s Stars in Their Eyes - or as it turned out: The Harry Hill Show.

Perhaps we are sad people, but we were looking forward to this and we remember the Matthew Kelly days with fondness. There were always a few good acts amongst the mediocre - one or two brilliant

HARRY HILL: Has tweaked the format without success.

enough to go on and secure long runs at some of the better known pubs.

Any new series should start off with a bang, but if this first crop of acts is anything to go by, future Saturday nights will be reduced to an evening of karaoke wannabes playing supporting roles to Harry and the smoke.

I realise this is not supposed to be a look-alike contest, but I would have thought that more effort could have gone into making this bunch a little more like their idols. The Everly Brothers were a bloke and his missus for goodness sake - it was all a bit creepy and they reminded me of the Kray twins on wacky baccy. And I hope Kylie was not watching, because the lady who aspired to perform like the Ozzie sex bomb, had about as much movement as a pound note in Scrooge’s wallet.

Harry Hill - with his trademark windbreaker collars, brothel creeper shoes and squint - has been an obvious success.

His weird take on life and witty voice overs in You’ve Been Framed are well known. But when he was approached to host the new Stars in Their Eyes, he made it a condition that he be allowed to ‘tweak’ the format. And there’s the problem.

People like little Ant and miniature Dec have stood the test of time, because they have deftly slipped into each new project whilst cleverly retaining their own distinct identity.

Harry on the other hand has adapted a tried and tested format to revolve entirely around him and his brand of slapstick humour, which, in my ‘umble opinion, is totally misplaced here, and has resulted in a car crash of a programme.

The second show will now have been screened and I suspect that like before, I will have hidden my face in embarrassment, carefully avoiding slopping my beer this time.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London. 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am The Great Interior Design Challenge 11:05am Claimed and Shamed 11:35am HARDtalk 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning Presented by Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley. A look at the day's news and headlines. 1:30pm Loose Women Lunchtime chat with the ladies and their guests. 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am According to Jim 8:10am King of Queens 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Undercover Boss 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Four in a Bed

CH5 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

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SKY 1 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm James Martin: Home Comforts 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

3:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Emergency Animal Rescue 4:30pm Emergency Animal Rescue 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

3:10pm A Place in the Sun Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm Out of Reach

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm The Kyle Files

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Winterwatch 10:00pm Winterwatch 10:30pm Surviving the Holocaust - Freddie Knoller's War 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Emmerdale

9:00pm Location, Location, Location

9:00pm Benefits: Can't Work, Won't Work

9:00pm David Attenborough's Galapagos

12:20am The Super-Rich and Us 1:20am World Indoor Bowls Highlights 2:20am Panorama 2:50am This is BBC Two 5:00am Making Art Work: First Idea to Final Piece

BBC THREE 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm The Musketeers 10:00pm Bangkok Airport 11:00pm Crims 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am EastEnders 12:30am Family Guy 12:55am Family Guy 1:15am Family Guy 1:35am Bangkok Airport 2:30am Crims 3:00am Don't Drop the Baby 4:00am Sweat the Small Stuff 4:30am Crims 5:00am This is BBC Three

Rishi Persad presents coverage of the World Indoor Bowls Championships 2015 from Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk.

Thriller.

Chat show with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip Philip Serrell and Charles Hanson's road trip begins.

9pm 9:00pm Room 101 9:30pm EastEnders 10:00pm Death in Paradise 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Question Time

Emma plans to be closer to her sons. Val and Pollard put up a fight against the scrapyard.

Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp are in London.

Reality series.

Sir David Attenborough travels to the Galapagos.

10:00pm Cucumber 11:00pm Josie: The Most Hated Woman in Britain?

10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

12:10am Kids Behind Bars 1:10am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:00am 24 Hours in Police Custody 1:05am The CCTV Traffic Wardens: Caught on Camera 2:00am One Born Every Minute 2:55am Weighing Up the Enemy 3:50am Food Unwrapped 4:15am Dispatches

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Super Casino 4:10am Benefits 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Great Scientists 5:50am House Doctor

12:25am An Idiot Abroad 1:25am Hawaii Five-0 2:25am Hawaii Five-0 3:15am NCIS: Los Angeles 4:05am NCIS: Los Angeles 5:00am Road Wars

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8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Horizon 10:00pm Headhunters 11:35pm Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession 12:35am The Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home 1:35am Horizon 2:35am Top of the Pops 3:15am Sounds of the Sixties 3:45am Constable: A Country Rebel 4:40am This is BBC Four

8:15am You've Been Framed!

9:15am The Cube 10:15am Psych 11:10am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Coronation Street 1:40pm You've Been Framed!

2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm You've Been Framed and Famous!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Fast and Furious 12:10am Cockroaches 12:40am Two and a Half Men

9:25am Where the Heart is 10:35am The Royal 11:35am Judge Judy 12:55pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Endeavour 11:00pm Trial and Retribution 12:00am Law and Order: UK

9:50am Hogan's Heroes 10:20am Hogan's Heroes 10:55am Magnum, P.I. 11:55am Minder 12:55pm The Professionals 2:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 3:00pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:55pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Minder 7:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm River Monsters 11:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 12:05am Magnum Force

1:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 10:30pm Marry Me 11:00pm Banana 11:30pm The Inbetweeners

Comedy

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9:30pm Birds of a Feather 10:00pm Bring Back Borstal 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Late Debate

Highlights of the latest events from the past 24 hours.

11:00pm Botched Up Bodies

10:00pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World 11:00pm Ascension

12am 12:35am This Week 1:20am Skiing Weatherview 1:25am BBC News

Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:25am Born to Race: Fast Track 9:05am Demolition Man 11:05am The Next Karate Kid 1:00pm Fire with Fire After identifying a murderer, a firefighter is placed in a witness protection programme.

2:45pm Miami Vice 5:00pm Gangster Squad 7:00pm Demolition Man 9:00pm Lethal Weapon 11:00pm Lethal Weapon 2 1:00am Fire with Fire 2:45am Gangster Squad 4:45am The Top Ten Show 2015 5:00am The Next Karate Kid

7:00am Love Actually 9:20am Grudge Match 11:20am Bean 1:05pm American Pie: The Wedding 2:55pm Scary Movie 5 4:30pm The Best Man Holiday 6:40pm Love Actually Romcom following the interconnected lives of a group of loved-up, and lovelorn, Londoners.

9:00pm Grudge Match 11:00pm American Pie: The Wedding 12:50am Scary Movie 5 2:25am The Best Man Holiday 4:45am Coffee Town

7:45am The Chamber 9:50am Cellular 11:40am Dead Again 1:40pm American Hustle 4:10pm Derailed A brilliant conman is forced to work for the FBI after they are caught out on a scam, but their new task drags them into a web of mobsters and high corruption.

6:10pm The Chamber 8:15pm Cellular 10:00pm American Hustle 12:20am Kiss the Girls 2:20am City of God 4:40am Derailed

8:30am Nativity 3: Dude Where's My Donkey Special 9:00am My Girl 10:45am Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 12:25pm Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 2:00pm Ella Enchanted 3:50pm Doctor Dolittle 2 5:20pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 7:00pm Ghostbusters II 9:00pm Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 10:40pm Doctor Dolittle 2 12:15am The Last Keepers 1:50am Ghostbusters II 3:45am Ella Enchanted

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6:15am The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Special 6:30am Stage to Screen 7:00am Drive Hard 8:45am Behind Enemy Lines 4: Seal Team Eight 10:30am Return to Nim's Island 12:15pm Healing 2:20pm The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:00pm Drive Hard 5:40pm Return to Nim's Island 7:20pm The Trials of Cate Mccall 9:00pm Devil's Due 10:45pm Man of Tai Chi 12:35am Drive Hard 2:20am Behind Enemy Lines 4: Seal Team Eight

7:25am Gunsmoke 8:25am Gunsmoke 9:30am The Big Knife 11:35am The Searchers 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Rio Bravo 6:40pm Riding Shotgun 8:10pm Escape from Zahrain 10:00pm No Good Deed 11:50pm The Reaping 1:45am No Good Deed 3:25am The Reaping 5:05am Ed Sullivan's Rock N' Roll Classics 5:30am Ed Sullivan's Rock N' Roll Classics

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Spanish Taxation In 2015 Part 2 There are a few tax changes in Spain for 2015, and you need to understand how they affect you personally. Our previous article covered income and wealth tax, this week we look at capital gains tax, succession tax and the new exit tax.

Capital gains tax All capital gains are now taxed at the savings tax rates, even those arising on assets held for less than a year (previously taxed at the scale rates for general income).

If you own assets (property or shares) acquired before 31st December 1994, you need to be aware that the time apportioned capital gains tax relief on such assets has been removed from January 2015.

Instead each taxpayer will be entitled to a cumulative lifetime allowance of €400,000 to apply to the sales proceeds of pre-December 1994 assets.

Therefore, if you sell assets which you bought before 1995 and are now worth over €400,000, you could have a much higher tax bill.

By Gary Cardwell, Partner, Blevins Franks Succession tax Following the European Court of Justice ruling that Spanish succession tax was discriminatory, the Spanish tax authorities have now issued new regulations with significant changes to the way Spain’s autonomous community rules apply on inheritances and lifetime gifts.

From January 2015, if you are resident in Spain when you die, beneficiaries resident in an EU or

EEA state can apply the local regional rules of the regional community you live in. If you receive an inheritance of Spanish assets from someone resident outside Spain, but in an EU/EEA state, you have the right to apply the regional rules of the autonomous community where the highest value of assets is located. If the assets are outside Spain you can apply the rules of your local community.

This is welcome news, since for many people the local regional rules tend to be more beneficial than the state ones.

British expatriates also need to consider UK inheritance tax.

Exit tax A new “exit tax” has been introduced from January 2015. It applies to taxpayers (residents of Spain for five of the last ten fiscal years) who lose their Spanish tax residence and hold shares or equity interests in any type of entity of

mutual investment institution, whose market value exceeds €4,000,000 or €1,000,000 if the taxpayer holds a 25% interest in the entity. This applies to unrealised gains, even if you do not sell the investments.

Payment may be deferred in certain cases, such as if the transfer is to a jurisdiction with which Spain exchanges tax information. If the individual moves to another EU/EEA country, the gain need only be declared if they sell the shares within 10 years or if they move out of the EU/EEA (European Economic Area).

If you hold shares or investments worth close to or more than the values above, contact Blevins Franks for advice on how to structure the capital so that your investments fall outside this exit tax regime, so you need not be concerned by it should you leave Spain.

As always, you need to make sure that you correctly declare all your

assets on your income and wealth tax returns and Form 720. With the new automatic exchange of information, the tax authorities will be able to spot any discrepancies or omissions. Nonetheless, with specialist advice you can often reduce tax on your savings, investments, pensions and assets.

Blevins Franks have decades of experience advising British expatriates and in-depth knowledge of Spanish taxation.

Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice.

To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am The Great Interior Design Challenge 11:05am Food and Drink 11:35am The Travel Show 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm BBC World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning Presented by Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes. A look at the day's news and headlines. 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

FRIDAY TV

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am According to Jim 8:10am King of Queens 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Undercover Boss 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Four in a Bed

CH5 8:35am Thomas and Friends 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains The team have to improvise when heavy snowfall spells trouble for the entire network. 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm James Martin: Home Comforts 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

3:00pm World Indoor Bowls Championships Rishi Persad presents coverage of the World Indoor Bowls Championships 2015 from Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk.

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS: Los Angeles

Chat show with Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins.

The Office of Special Projects is charged with finding a missing unmanned aerial vehicle.

4:15pm Client Seduction

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Emergency Animal Rescue 4:30pm Emergency Animal Rescue 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Match of the Day Live

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Race to the Pole

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Food and Drink 10:00pm The Big Allotment Challenge

9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show

9:00pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 11:00pm The Last Leg

9:00pm Ice Road Truckers 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother

9:00pm Show Me Your Garden 10:00pm Ascension

9pm 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News The latest news, sport and weather from London.

11:35pm The Graham Norton Show The award-winning host continues his anarchic talk show.

Gardeners go head to head in a competition hosted by Fern Britton.

11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight

Martin Lewis and Saira Khan present the money-saving series.

9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Knocked Up

The award-winning gang show returns for a new series, live on Friday nights.

All the drama and action from this year's housemates as one of them is evicted live on air.

Pressure mounts on Enzmann when a government investigator intervenes.

11:00pm Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side

11:40pm Fortitude: Behind the Scenes Entertainment programme going behind the scenes of the new Sky Atlantic thriller Fortitude.

12am 12:20am Bluestone 42 12:50am EastEnders Omnibus 2:45am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:50am BBC News

12:05am Albatross 1:30am World Indoor Bowls Highlights 2:30am Question Time 3:30am This is BBC Two

2:00am Jackpot247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am ITV Nightscreen

12:05am Catastrophe 12:40am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:05am Rude Tube 2:00am All About Steve 3:40am The Ricky Gervais Show 4:05am The Ricky Gervais Show 4:30am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not

12:30am Celebrity Big Brother 1:15am Super Casino 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am House Doctor 5:45am House Doctor

12:10am Deep Blue Sea 2:15am Hawaii Five-0 3:15am Hawaii Five-0 4:15am NCIS: Los Angelese 5:15am NCIS: Los Angeles

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8:00pm Doctor Who 8:15pm Doctor Who 9:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 10:00pm Tough Young Teachers 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:30am Crims 2:00am Russell Howard's Good News 2:30am Russell Howard's Good News 3:00am Uncle 4:00am Uncle 4:30am Crims 5:00am This is BBC Three

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Concerto at the BBC Proms 9:00pm The Joy of Mozart 10:00pm Sound of Song 11:00pm Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years on 12:00am The Beatles' Please Please Me: Remaking a Classic 1:00am Motown at the BBC 2:00am Sound of Song 3:00am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years on 4:00am The Beatles' Please Please Me: Remaking a Classic 4:55am This is BBC Four

7:45am Emmerdale 8:15am Emmerdale 8:45am You've Been Framed!

9:15am The Cube 10:15am Psych 11:10am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Hot Fuzz 12:25am Take Me Out

9:25am Where the Heart is 10:35am The Royal 11:40am Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 11:00pm Trial and Retribution 12:00am Law and Order: UK

10:10am Hogan's Heroes 10:45am Magnum, P.I. 11:45am Minder 12:50pm The Professionals 1:50pm Alias Smith and Jones 2:55pm Magnum, P.I. 3:55pm Pawn Stars 4:55pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Minder 7:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 8:00pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm Counting Cars 10:00pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 11:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 12:00am Basic

1:00pm Hollyoaks 1:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 2:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Marry Me 10:00pm Knight and Day 12:10am The Big Bang Theory

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SKY MOVIES Action 5:00am The Next Karate Kid 7:00am Kindergarten Cop 9:05am Die Hard with a Vengeance 11:25am Thor: The Dark World 1:25pm Star Trek Into Darkness 3:45pm Alien: Resurrection 5:45pm Déjà Vu Action sci-fi thriller about an ATF agent, Doug Carlin, who travels back in time to save the key witness in the investigation into a ferry bombing, falling in love in the process.

8:00pm Thor: The Dark World 10:00pm Star Trek Into Darkness 12:15am Die Hard with a Vengeance 2:30am Commando 4:05am Alien: Resurrection

6:30am Despicable Me 2 Special 7:00am The Heat: Sky Movies Special 7:20am Maverick 9:30am Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 11:20am The Hangover Part III 1:05pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 3:10pm There's Something About Mary 5:15pm The Nutty Professor 7:00pm Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 9:00pm The Hangover Part III 10:50pm Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 1:00am There's Something About Mary 3:10am The Nutty Professor 4:50am Maverick

4:40am Derailed 6:30am Malpractice 8:10am Black Rain 10:20am Big Nothing 12:00pm All Things to All Men 1:40pm The Call 3:25pm Murder by Numbers 5:30pm Conspiracy Theory 7:50pm Black Rain Cop Nick transfers a Japanese hitman from New York to Tokyo, then loses him.

10:00pm The Call 11:40pm Green Street 1:35am The Last Boy Scout 3:30am Single White Female 5:30am Point Last Seen

5:30am Saving Santa 7:00am Eragon 8:55am Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 10:25am Stage to Screen 11:00am Moshi Monsters: The Movie 12:30pm Escape From Planet Earth 2:00pm Night at the Museum 3:50pm Doctor Dolittle 3 5:35pm Turbo: Sky Movies Special 6:00pm Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 7:25pm Escape From Planet Earth 9:00pm Night at the Museum 10:50pm Doctor Dolittle 3 12:30am Eragon 2:15am March of the Penguins 3:40am Miracle on 34th Street

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4:00am Healing 6:15am The Top Ten Show 2015 6:30am Stage to Screen 7:00am Wild Special 7:30am In Secret 9:30am Return to Nim's Island 11:15am The Zero Theorem 1:15pm The Monuments Men Special 1:30pm The Trials of Cate Mccall 3:15pm When the Lights Went Out 5:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 11:00pm The Zero Theorem 1:00am When the Lights Went Out 2:30am The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:15am Return to Nim's Island

6:00am Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America 7:00am Gunsmoke 9:15am Rio Bravo 11:55am Escape from Zahrain 1:50pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Fort Utah 5:35pm Cast a Giant Shadow 8:15pm Waco 10:00pm Suspect 12:20am Traitor 2:40am Suspect 4:45am Ed Sullivan's Rock N' Roll Classics 5:15am Off Set

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OR Los Montesinos salon owner Chantelle Lambert, the super power she would most like to have, particularly at this time of year when everyone is trying to get fit and healthy, would be “to have the power to do an automatic detox.” She joked: “And the power to not suffer from any hangovers!”

Dianne Kilner from 1 Stop Pool Shop in Albox, Almeria, would use her powers for good. “I wish I could predict the future,” she said. “I would want to be able to stop bad things from happening and save lives. Imagine what it would be like if we could have avoided the recent murders in Paris.”

When asked what super power she would like to have, Jane O’Brian, who is Head Tutor at the Marbella Beauty

Dianne: Would like to predict the future.

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What superpower would you most like to have?

STREET TALK Academy on the Costa Del Sol and who is known for being a fantastic teacher and mentor and for bringing a lot of fun into the lives of her students and colleagues, said: “I would like the super power to fly, to feel FREE like an eagle and to soar above the earth would be the most amazing thing in the world! How cool would that be?!”

Stars in their Eyes contestant Emily Hullmann, from Quesada, said she would love to have the super power of being physic: “It would be really interesting and great to be able to read people’s minds and get an idea of what people are really like and what they are thinking.” She joked: “and the power to grow a money tree in my living room would be nice as well!”

Michelle from Ace of Shades in Mijas,

the Costa Del Sol’s specialist in awnings, blinds, glass curtains, mosquito screens and home improvements said she would most like to fly! “How lovely it would be to go anywhere I chose to, whenever I wanted! To be able see anyone at any time would be amazing! I could pop back to the UK and see my grandchildren, although I would definitely need a jumper or a coat!” We agree! Brrrr!

Emily: To grow a money tree.

Chantelle: To do an automatic detox.

Tony and Michelle: Ace of Shades - would most like to fly.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm James Martin's Home Comforts 1:00pm BBC News 1:05pm Weather 1:10pm Football Focus 2:00pm Bargain Hunt

BBC TWO 7:00am San Demetrio, London 8:35am Angels One 10:10am Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam 10:40am Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam 11:10am British Isles: A Natural History, Islands Apart 12:00pm FA Cup Rewind 1:00pm James Martin's Home Comforts 1:30pm The Churchill Obituary 2:30pm Great Britons

ITV 7:00am CITV 10:20am ITV News 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:20am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:20pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:30pm ITV News and Weather 1:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 2:35pm The Undriveables

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CH4 7:35am How I Met Your Mother 8:00am Snowdon Race 2014 8:55am The Morning Line 10:00am King of Queens 10:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:30am Frasier 12:00pm Frasier 12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 12:55pm The Big Bang Theory 1:25pm Speed with Guy Martin 2:30pm Channel 4 Racing

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35am Access 11:40am Ice Road Truckers 12:35pm Ice Road Truckers 1:30pm Ice Road Truckers 2:25pm Columbo

SATURDAY TV

SKY 1 6:05am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 8:00am Glee 9:00am Modern Family 9:30am A League of Their Own 10:00am The Fantasy Football Club 11:00am Soccer A.M. 1:00pm What's Up 2:00pm Modern Family 2:30pm The Theory of Everything Special

3pm 3:05pm Who's Doing the Dishes?

4:05pm Doc Martin 5:05pm Big Star's Little Star

5:00pm Come Dine with Me

6:05pm Local News and Weather 6:15pm ITV News and Weather 6:30pm You've Been Framed!

7:30pm Planets Got Talent 8:00pm Stars in Their Eyes

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:30pm The Restoration Man 8:30pm Guy Martin's Spitfire

6:00pm Columbo: A Matter of Honor 7:25pm Elvis by the Presleys

9:30pm The Two Ronnies 10:00pm Holbein: Eye of the Tudors - A Culture Show Special 11:00pm The Artist

9:05pm Take Me Out 10:20pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:20pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

10:00pm Holocaust: Night Will Fall 11:20pm Unstoppable

9:05pm Elvis - The 1968 Comeback Special 10:05pm 5 News 10:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:15pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

9:00pm A League of Their Own 10:00pm Deep Blue Sea Scientists experiment on a new strain of super shark in their hunt for a cure for Alzheimers.

12:35am Bowls Coverage of the latest bowls fixture. 1:35am Thirteen Days 3:50am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

1:30am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA Jeremy Kyle presents the American version of his popular talk show.

4:40am Nightscreen

1:10am The Departed 3:45am Hollyoaks Omnibus

12:15am Law and Order 1:10am Super Casino 4:10am Celebrity Big Brother 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:05am A League of Their Own 12:35am A League of Their Own 1:05am Last Man Standing 1:35am Road Wars 2:05am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am NCIS: Los Angeles

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Eagle Eye 11:50pm Family Guy 12:13am Family Guy 12:36am Family Guy 12:59am Family Guy 1:22am Family Guy 1:45am Family Guy 2:08am Family Guy 2:31am Family Guy 2:55am Crims 3:25am Uncle 3:55am Uncle 4:25am Uncle

8:00pm Serengeti 9:00pm Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 10:00pm Spiral 10:55pm Spiral 11:55pm Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story 12:55am Duets at the BBC 1:55am Top of the Pops 2:30am Sounds of the 70s 3:00am Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 4:00am Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story

2:15pm FYI Daily 2:20pm Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 3:00pm You've Been Framed!

4:00pm You've Been Framed!

5:05pm You've Been Framed!

5:35pm Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang 6:35pm FYI Daily 6:40pm Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang 7:50pm Ocean's Thirteen 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm Ocean's Thirteen 10:20pm Take Me Out: The Gossip 11:05pm I Am Legend 12:05am FYI Daily

8:35am FYI Daily 8:40am The Belles of St. Trinian's 9:25am Where the Heart is 10:30am Where the Heart is 11:40am The Darling Buds of May 12:45pm A Touch of Frost 2:50pm Wycliffe 4:00pm Carry on Loving 5:00pm FYI Daily 5:05pm Carry on Loving 6:00pm Agatha Christie's Marple 8:00pm Doc Martin 9:00pm Foyle's War 11:00pm Lewis 1:05am A Touch of Frost

1:25pm The Secret War of Harry Frigg 2:35pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 3:35pm Battle of the Bulge 4:35pm FYI Daily 4:40pm Battle of the Bulge 6:50pm Storage Wars 7:15pm Storage Wars 7:45pm Storage Wars Texas 8:15pm Storage Wars Texas 8:45pm Driven 9:45pm FYI Daily 9:50pm Driven 11:00pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 12:00am 8 Mile

3:00pm How I Met Your Mother 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm Bad(Ish) Robots 5:00pm Bad(Ish) Robots 5:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:00pm Rude(Ish) Tube 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The 100 10:00pm Hot Tub Time Machine 12:00am The Inbetweeners

Comedy

Crime

Family

3:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 4:00pm Escape to the Continent 5:00pm Final Score

3:30pm Bowls 5:30pm Somerset: After the Floods Documentary exploring the impact of the 2013 floods on the Somerset Levels.

This edition comes from Chippenham, where the first host is part-time practical joker and full-time RAF engineer Corporal Keith McEvoy.

4:25pm Columbo: Murder Under Glass A food critic who has been extorting money from restaurant owners in exchange for good reviews, murders one of those owners when they threaten to expose him.

3:00pm Last Man Standing 3:30pm Last Man Standing 4:00pm Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 5:00pm Emergency Animal Rescue 5:30pm Last Man Standing

6pm 6:20pm Pointless 7:10pm BBC News 7:20pm Regional News 7:25pm Weather 7:30pm Now You See It 8:00pm The Voice UK

6:30pm Flog It! 7:30pm Porridge 8:00pm The Two Ronnies Sketchbook 8:30pm The Many Faces of Ronnie Barker Documentary profiling late comedian Ronnie Barker.

The story of Elvis's life and career told by those who knew him best.

6:00pm Harrow: A Very British School 7:00pm The Fanatics 8:00pm Show Me Your Garden

9pm 9:25pm The National Lottery 10:15pm Casualty 11:05pm BBC News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights

12am 12:55am The Football League Show 1:55am Primeval 3:25am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:30am BBC News

Peter Powell presents chart hits of the week.

SKY MOVIES Action 7:40am The Mask of Zorro 10:00am The Amazing Spider-Man 2 12:25pm The Top Ten Show 2015 12:45pm The Patriot 3:35pm The Mask of Zorro Swashbuckling romantic adventure.

6:00pm xXx 8:10pm xXx2: The Next Level 10:00pm The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man battles an electrifying new foe, while being forced to confront someone from his past.

12:25am Con Air 2:25am xXx 4:35am Judge Dredd

7:00am Dave 9:00am This is the End 11:00am The World's End 1:00pm Wayne's World 2 2:50pm The Heat: Sky Movies Special 3:05pm Ghostbusters 5:05pm Ghostbusters II 7:05pm Brewster's Millions Brewster has to spend $30m in 30 days or he stands to lose his $300m inheritance.

9:00pm The World's End 11:00pm This is the End 12:55am Ghostbusters 2:50am The Break-Up Gary and Brooke are blissfully happy together in their Chicago condo.

7:10am The Truth About Emanuel 9:00am The Washington Snipers 10:45am Harsh Times 12:55pm A Few Good Men 3:15pm Blood Work FBI profiler Terry McCaleb has retired after a heart transplant.

5:20pm In the Line of Fire 7:40pm 25th Hour 10:00pm The Green Mile 1:05am Basic Instinct 3:25am Jagged Edge Newspaper man Jack is the prime suspect when his rich wife is murdered.

5:25am Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man

7:00am Dennis The Menace 8:40am Rugrats Go Wild 10:05am Free Willy 12:00pm Muppets Most Wanted 1:50pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3:50pm Despicable Me 2 5:30pm The Blue Umbrella Two umbrellas make eyes at each other in the city rain. Animated short.

5:45pm Rugrats Go Wild 7:10pm Muppets Most Wanted 9:00pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 11:05pm Oz: The Great and Powerful 1:25am Free Willy 3:20am Chimpanzee 4:45am Jack Frost

Premiere

TCM

7:00am Captain Phillips: Sky Movies Special 7:30am In Secret 9:30am Return to Nim's Island 11:15am The Monuments Men Special 11:30am The Zero Theorem 1:30pm The Trials of Cate Mccall 3:15pm When the Lights Went Out 5:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 7:00pm In Secret 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 11:00pm The Zero Theorem 1:00am When the Lights Went Out 2:30am The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:15am Return to Nim's Island

8:25am Gunsmoke 9:30am Gunsmoke 10:35am Waco 12:15pm Fort Utah 1:50pm Toward the Unknown 4:00pm Superman 6:40pm The Young Guns 8:15pm His Majesty O'Keefe 10:00pm The Dark Knight 12:55am New Police Story 3:10am Toward the Unknown 5:05am Rock N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits Featuring classic performances from some of the biggest music acts of the '60s and '70s.

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 8:30am Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am The Big Questions 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Match of the Day Live

BBC TWO 7:15am Great British Garden Revival 8:15am Glorious Gardens From Above 9:00am Countryfile 10:00am The Football League Show 11:00am FA Cup Rewind 12:00pm Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 1:30pm James Martin's Food Map of Britain 1:45pm The Long and the Short and the Tall

ITV 7:00am CITV 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 1:35pm ITV News and Weather 1:40pm Stars in Their Eyes 2:35pm Catchphrase

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CH4 9:30am Frasier 9:55am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:55pm The Big Bang Theory

CH5 7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35am Access 11:50am The Hotel Inspector 12:45pm The Hotel Inspector 1:45pm The Hotel Inspector 2:40pm Dudley Do-Right

SUNDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am Mission Implausible 7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 9:00am Glee 10:00am Stage to Screen 10:30am Whiplash Special 10:45am The Wild Special 11:00am A League of Their Own 11:30am Futurama 12:00pm WWE Raw 1:00pm Modern Family 1:30pm Modern Family 2:00pm Last Man Standing 2:30pm Last Man Standing

3pm 5:05pm Escape to the Country 5:35pm Songs of Praise

3:30pm Bowls Coverage of the latest bowls fixture.

3:20pm Midsomer Murders 5:15pm The Man with the Golden Gun Action adventure. James Bond finds himself the target of the World's deadliest assassin, Scaramanga.

3:25pm The Simpsons 3:55pm The Simpsons 4:30pm Maid in Manhattan

4:20pm Cheaper by the Dozen 2 A family holiday gets competitive when dad of 12 Tom Baker discovers that his childhood rival has hit the big time and erected a huge holiday home on the same lake. Chaotic family comedy from the director of The Pacifier.

3:00pm Ashley Banjo's Big Town Dance 4:00pm Last Man Standing 4:30pm The Theory of Everything Special 5:00pm Emergency with Angela Griffin

6pm 6:10pm Nature's Boldest Thieves 7:00pm BBC News 7:20pm Regional News 7:25pm Weather 7:30pm Countryfile 8:30pm Still Open All Hours

6:15pm Ski Sunday Coverage of winter sports events.

7:00pm Real Steel

7:35pm Local News and Weather 7:45pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Get You Act Together

6:35pm Channel 4 News 7:00pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 8:00pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent Phil Spencer's goes undercover, looking for buyers for two shabby semis in the north of England.

6:05pm Zookeeper 8:00pm Bulletproof Monk For 60 years, a Tibetan monk has protected an ancient scroll which gives its owner immortality and incredible power.

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Futurama 8:00pm Modern Family 8:30pm Modern Family

9pm 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm Dragons' Den 11:00pm Shadow Dancer

9:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 10:00pm Mr Selfridge 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:20pm Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain

9:00pm The Hotel 10:00pm Walking the Nile 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

12:35am Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island 1:35am Countryfile News and stories concerning the heart of the British countryside. 2:30am Holby City

12:20am The Undriveables 12:50am The Chase 1:45am The Store 3:30am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:10am Nightscreen

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

8:00pm Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes 8:30pm The Voice UK 10:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 10:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:00pm Family Guy 11:22pm Family Guy 11:45pm Crims 12:15am Family Guy 12:40am Family Guy 1:05am Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 1:35am Russell Howard's Good News 2:05am Bangkok Airport 3:00am Crims

8:00pm Shoah

9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm Last Tango in Halifax 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights

9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm The Darkest Hour

9:00pm Fortitude: Behind the Scenes 9:30pm Futurama 10:00pm Futurama 10:30pm Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 11:30pm Show Me Your Garden

12:05am Evil Dead 1:55am The Last Leg 2:50am Joe Somebody 4:30am Kirstie's Best of Both Worlds 5:25am River Cottage Bites 5:35am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not

12:45am Cats Do the Funniest Things 1:45am Car Crash TV 2:15am Super Casino 4:10am Storage: Flog the Lot! 5:00am House Doctor 5:25am Make it Big 5:50am Make it Big

12:30am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:30am Hawaii Five-0 2:30am Last Man Standing 3:00am Road Wars 4:00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime 5:00am Mission Implausible

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

2:45pm Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco 3:45pm FYI Daily 3:50pm Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco 4:35pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 5:35pm FYI Daily 5:40pm E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 6:50pm Along Came Polly 7:50pm FYI Daily 7:55pm Along Came Polly 8:35pm The Mummy 9:35pm FYI Daily 9:40pm The Mummy 11:00pm The Hangover

11:00am Heartbeat 12:00pm Heartbeat 1:00pm Sherlock Holmes 3:00pm The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery 4:00pm FYI Daily 4:05pm The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery 4:45pm Rosemary and Thyme 6:00pm Inspector Morse 8:00pm Lewis 10:00pm Les Dawson: An Audience with That Never 11:00pm Northern Lights 12:00am Lewis

1:15pm Alias Smith and Jones 2:15pm Counting Cars 2:45pm Counting Cars 3:10pm Pawn Stars 3:40pm Pawn Stars 4:05pm Pawn Stars 4:30pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Pawn Stars 5:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Highlights 6:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live 9:30pm Pawn Stars 10:00pm The Day of the Jackal 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Day of the Jackal 12:55am River Monsters

1:30pm Revenge 2:30pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3:30pm The 100 4:30pm Melissa and Joey 5:00pm Melissa and Joey 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7:00pm Marry Me 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm A Knight's Tale 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:10am The Inbetweeners

Crime

Family

Jimmy Carr hosts the new series of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

12am 12:30am The Apprentice USA 1:55am Weather for the Week AheadDetailed weather report. 2:00am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

First Era.

12:25am Sound of Song Documentary

1:25am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 60 Years on 2:25am The Beatles' Please Please Me - ReMaking a Classic Documentary

3:20am The Heart of Country: How Nashville Became Music City USA 5:00am This is BBC Four

SKY MOVIES Action 6:15am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot 7:45am Oblivion 10:00am Fantastic Four 11:55am Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 1:35pm Last Action Hero 4:00pm R.I.P.D. 5:45pm Oblivion 8:00pm Fantastic Four 10:00pm Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer 11:40pm R.I.P.D. 1:25am Executive Decision 3:40am Last Action Hero

Comedy 7:00am Wedding Crashers 9:00am The Goonies 10:55am Hot Shots!

12:25pm Hot Shots! Part Deux 1:55pm Identity Thief 3:50pm Uncle Buck 5:30pm The Goonies A group of kids embark on a perilous search for pirate treasure. Family adventure.

7:30pm Hot Shots!

9:00pm Hot Shots! Part Deux 10:40pm Identity Thief 12:40am Wedding Crashers John and Jeremy specialise in crashing weddings.

2:45am Uncle Buck

7:10am Zero Dark Thirty 9:50am The Island 12:10pm Runner Runner 1:50pm Kiss Kiss Bang Bang A small-time crook and a prickly private eye are thrown together by a string of LA murders.

3:40pm The Bone Collector A paralysed forensics expert teams up with a fresh-faced cop to hunt down a serial killer.

5:40pm Speed 7:45pm Speed 2: Cruise Control 10:00pm Runner Runner 11:35pm Kill Bill: Vol. 1 1:30am Kill Bill: Vol. 2 3:55am Cherry Falls

6:30am Nativity 3: Dude Where's My Donkey Special 7:00am Dennis Strikes Again 8:20am Stage to Screen 8:50am Peter Pan 10:50am Hook 1:20pm Neverland 2:55pm Neverland 4:30pm Peter Pan 6:30pm Hook 9:00pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 11:30pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2:00am Look Who's Talking 3:45am Look Who's Talking Too

Premiere

TCM

7:00am Wild Special 7:30am In Secret 9:30am Return to Nim's Island 11:15am The Trials of Cate Mccall 1:00pm The Top Ten Show 2015 1:15pm The Zero Theorem 3:15pm When the Lights Went Out 5:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire

8:05am His Majesty O'Keefe 9:50am The Young Guns 11:30am Superman 2:15pm The Steel Trap 4:00pm Rio Lobo 6:10pm The Toughest Gun in Tombstone 7:35pm The Castilian 10:00pm Hell on Wheels

Greek general Thermistocles leads the charge against an invading Persian army.

7:00pm In Secret 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 11:00pm When the Lights Went Out 12:30am The Zero Theorem 2:30am The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:15am Return to Nim's Island

Chicken Hill.

11:00pm Death Proof 1:05am The Kid Stays in the Picture 2:55am Death Proof 4:50am Rock N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits

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BBC ONE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Saints and Scroungers 12:45pm Helicopter Heroes Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:38pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors

BBC TWO 7:05am Homes Under the Hammer 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 11:05am Great British Railway Journeys 11:35am Click 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:35pm Reel History of Britain

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

www.euroweeklynews.com

CH4 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Four in a Bed

CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:10am Peppa Pig 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

MONDAY TV

SKY 1 6:00am UK Border Force 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:05pm Churchill 4:05pm Mrs. Miniver

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Like Mother, Like Daughter

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Top Gear

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Criminals: Caught on Camera 8:30pm Car Crash TV

9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm David Starkey's Magna Carta 11:00pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Richard Wilson on the Road 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Broadchurch 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm The Jonathan Ross Show

9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm Catastrophe 11:35pm Bodyshockers

9:00pm Storage: Flog the Lot! 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Got Hitched, Got Ditched

12:20am Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War 1:20am The Super-Rich and Us 2:20am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two. 5:00am Human Planet

12:45am The Kyle Files 1:10am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:40am Nightscreen

12:35am 24 Hours in A and E 1:35am Walking the Nile 2:30am Man v Weird 3:25am Jon Richardson Grows Up 4:20am Grand Designs 5:15am Sarah Beeny's Double Your House for Half the Money

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Botched Up Bodies 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Suspects 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Great Scientists 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

BBC THREE

BBC FOUR

ITV2

ITV3

ITV4

E4

8:00pm World's Craziest Fools 8:30pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:30pm Waterloo Road 10:30pm South Side Story 11:00pm Cuckoo 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:22am Family Guy 12:44am Family Guy

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm The Treasure Hunters 10:00pm British Gardens in Time 11:00pm Storyville

1:15pm Emmerdale 1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

7:30pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm Best of You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Through the Keyhole 11:00pm Couples Retreat 1:20am Two and a Half Men

12:05pm Judge Judy 12:30pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm Collision 12:00am Law and Order

11:55am Minder 1:00pm The Professionals 2:00pm Alias Smith and Jones 3:00pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm Pawn Stars 4:30pm Pawn Stars 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 5:30pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Highway Patrol 6:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Storage Wars Texas 10:30pm Storage Wars Texas 11:00pm Ax Men 12:00am D-Tox

4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm New Girl 9:30pm New Girl 10:00pm Revenge 11:00pm Rude Tube 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

Crime

Family

3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm The Link 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

Crime thriller.

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Inside Out

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9pm 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Waterloo Road

9:00pm The Holidaymakers 10:00pm 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy 11:00pm Air Ambulance ER

Documentary series about people who have been betrayed by their nearest and dearest.

12am 12:40am The Graham Norton Show 1:25am The Visitor 3:05am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report.

3:10am BBC News

Animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of family life.

1:06am Family Guy 1:30am South Side Story 2:00am Cuckoo 2:30am Excluded: Kicked Out of School

Series showcasing the best in international documentaries.

12:15am Horizon 1:15am Otis Redding: Soul Ambassador 2:15am A-Z of World Music 3:45am British Gardens in Time Series which explores four iconic British gardens.

4:50am This is BBC Four

SKY MOVIES Action 6:05am Rooster Cogburn 7:55am Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 9:55am Bullitt 11:55am Noah In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

2:15pm X-Men 4:05pm Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 6:05pm Underworld 8:10pm X-Men 10:00pm Noah In the face of apocalyptic floods, one man is chosen to be the world's saviour.

12:20am Predator 2:10am Underworld 4:15am Predator

Comedy 6:30am Saving Mr. Banks Special 7:00am She's Having a Baby 8:50am Arthur 10:30am Arthur 2: On the Rocks 12:25pm Grown Ups 2 2:10pm Bruce Almighty 3:55pm Click 5:45pm The Way Way Back 7:30pm The Man 9:00pm Grown Ups 2 10:50pm Bruce Almighty 12:35am Click 2:25am American Pie: The Wedding 4:05am The Man 5:30am Arthur 2: On the Rocks

7:35am Solo 9:05am Reasonable Doubt 10:40am Thelma and Louise 12:55pm Derailed 2:45pm All Things to All Men 4:25pm Proof of Life Engineer Peter Bowden is snatched by professional terrorists in the South American jungle.

6:45pm Solo 8:20pm Reasonable Doubt 10:00pm Scarface 12:55am Blow 3:05am City of God 5:25am Loss of Faith

6:30am Planes: Sky Movies Special 7:00am Balto 8:20am Ella Enchanted 10:05am Delhi Safari 11:45am Ever After 1:50pm Ice Age: The Meltdown 3:45pm Mousehunt Two brothers inherit a house that will be worth a fortune when they renovate it.

5:30pm Parental Guidance 7:20pm Delhi Safari 9:00pm Ice Age: The Meltdown 11:00pm Ella Enchanted 12:45am Parental Guidance 2:35am Mousehunt

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7:40am The Castilian 10:05am The Toughest Gun in Tombstone 11:35am Rio Lobo 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan's Fight for Life 5:45pm Hostile Guns 7:40pm Spencer's Mountain Moving drama based on a novel by the creator of 'The Waltons'.

10:00pm Out for a Kill 11:45pm St Elmo's Fire The ultimate 'Brat Pack' movie.

1:45am Out for a Kill 3:25am St Elmo's Fire 5:10am Off Set

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Nora Johnson

Breaking Views A Costa del Sol resident for a number of years, Nora is the author of psychological suspense and crime thrillers.

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/columnists/nora-johnson

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ECENTLY, there’s been much coverage in the Spanish press about the high level of corruption cases here involving members of both mainstream political parties, each hurling accusations at the other. Corruption scandals are now so numerous that Spanish TV news lump them together in one swift round-up.

Ranging from King Felipe’s sister’s indictment for tax fraud plus her husband’s alleged embezzlement to the alleged slush fund operated by Spain’s governing conservative party, these seem to pop up in Spanish

society at so many levels. From admired footballer (Lionel Messi), world-famous opera singer Montserrat Caballe, former Barcelona football club president (Josep Núñez), to former president of the Catalan regional government (Jordi Pujol) - all accused of tax fraud.

In a recent damning report, Spain’s Audit Court found nearly all Spanish political parties guilty of financial crimes.

Ironically, all this corruption has inspired a couple of Spanish board games. Both D€mocracy and Corruptopolis invite players to grab at power or become the most corrupt, reflecting real-life scandals. D€mocracy’s goal is to gain and stay in power for as long as it takes. Anything goes: from leaking documents slandering your opponents, to shunting inquisitive judges off politically sensitive cases, to buying up media companies to control your campaign coverage.

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FINANCIAL CRIMES: Nearly all Spanish political parties guilty.

Alternatively, Corruptopolis’s aim is to spotlight the scandals that have enveloped politicians of the left and right as well as businesses, trade unions and football clubs.

Well, glasshouses and stones come to mind but, hopefully, Brits will be the last to throw anything in light of their

politicians’ past expenses shenanigans and Transparency International’s 2013 findings that 66 per cent of its UK respondents felt that political parties were ‘corrupt/extremely corrupt.’

But, you know, scandal/ corruption’s also about less obvious aspects of life. Like NHS hospital managers too focused

on business, cash and targets, not patient care - with fatal results as in Mid-Staffordshire.

Police going after ‘easy’ targets to improve clear-up rates. BBC management turning a blind eye to Savile’s activities.

Market scams, rate fixing etc.

The apparent inability to find an unbiased judge to head a much-needed enquiry into wideranging, large-scale child abuse.

Based on these criteria, the UK is hardly corruption/scandal-free.

As D€mocracy’s creator says: “Our politicians never stop surprising us.” I couldn’t have put it better myself. And, you may have noticed, I didn’t.

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.norajohnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.89;£0.79) and iBookstore.

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BBC TWO 8:05am Saints and Scroungers 8:50am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:20am Channel Patrol 10:05am Kate Humble: Into the Volcano 11:05am Great British Railway Journeys 11:35am HARDtalk 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm World News 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:35pm Reel History of Britain

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am According to Jim 8:10am King of Queens 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Four in a Bed

CH5 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

TUESDAY TV SKY 1 6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm The Link 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip

3:05pm Reel History of Britain 3:35pm Churchill 4:35pm The Wooden Horse

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Desperate Escape

3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Holocaust Memorial Day

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm River Monsters

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Benefits: Can't Work, Won't Work

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm Alex Polizzi: The Fixer 10:00pm Touched by Auschwitz

9:00pm Bad Builders Bang to Rights 10:00pm Paul O'Grady's Animal Orphans 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm On Assignment

9:00pm Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 10:00pm 24 Hours in Police Custody 11:00pm Ramsay's Hotel Hell 11:55pm Josie: The Most Hated Woman in Britain?

9:00pm Costa Del Casualty 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Britain's Flashiest Families

9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Air Ambulance ER 11:00pm Ross Kemp: Extreme World

6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders

9pm 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Silent Witness 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Count Arthur Strong

Documentary exploring the legacy of Auschwitz.

11:30pm Newsnight

12am 12:15am Film 2015 12:45am From Auschwitz with Love 1:15am Weather for the Week Ahead Detailed weather report. 1:20am BBC News

12:15am Weather The latest weather information. 12:20am Dragons' Den 1:20am Film 2015 1:50am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two. 5:00am The Code 5:30am Eco Maths

12:10am Benidorm 12:40am Carry on Cleo 2:15am Jackpot 247 4:00am Loose Women 4:45am Nightscreen

12:55am Pokerstars.Com and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final 1:50am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:20am Snowdon Race 2014 3:15am Better Things 4:50am River Cottage Bites 5:00am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am 10 Most Annoying Things About 1995 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Suspects 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Divine Designs 5:50am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Airline USA 5:30am Airline USA

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8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm EastEnders 10:00pm Excluded: Kicked Out of School 11:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 11:30pm EastEnders 12:00am Family Guy 12:23am Family Guy

4:50am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm Children of the Holocaust 10:00pm The Art of Fly Fishing 11:00pm Smiley's People 11:55pm Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell 1:00am Horizon 2:00am Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities 3:00am Fabric of Britain 4:00am The Art of Fly Fishing

12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:40pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

7:35pm You've Been Framed!

8:40pm The Mummy 11:00pm Cockroaches 11:35pm Plebs 12:05am Plebs 12:35am Blue Go Mad in Ibiza 1:35am Two and a Half Men

10:35am The Royal 11:40am Judge Judy 12:05pm Judge Judy 12:30pm Judge Judy 1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm Collision 12:00am Law and Order

10:25am Hogan's Heroes 10:55am Magnum, P.I. 12:00pm Minder 12:55pm The Professionals 1:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 3:00pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm I Want That Car 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 5:30pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Highway Patrol 6:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live 9:30pm Storage Wars 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm World Rally Championship Highlights: Monte Carlo 12:00am Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 10:00pm The 100 11:00pm Supernatural 12:00am The Big Bang Theory

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1:55am Underworld: Evolution 3:50am Barb Wire 5:30am Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

Comedy 7:25am Grumpy Old Men 9:10am Grumpier Old Men Old bachelor John has married Ariel, while his grumpy friend Max is still single.

10:55am Big Daddy 12:30pm We're the Millers 2:25pm Eight Legged Freaks 4:10pm Idiocracy 5:40pm Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 7:20pm Big Daddy 9:00pm We're the Millers 11:00pm Eight Legged Freaks 12:45am Idiocracy 2:15am Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 3:55am Conception A collection of couples struggle with sex, relationships and babies.

7:10am The Liability 8:40am After the Sunset 10:30am Closed Circuit 12:20pm Sleeping with the Enemy Laura Burney seems to have the perfect life: a stunning house and a loving husband, Martin.

2:10pm The Pelican Brief 4:40pm The Truth About Emanuel 6:30pm Closed Circuit 8:15pm After the Sunset 10:00pm Training Day 12:05am Outlaw Paratrooper Bryant returns from Iraq to find a London ruled by thugs and gangsters.

1:55am Basic Instinct 4:15am Fear

6:20am Balto 7:40am Chimpanzee 9:10am The Blue Umbrella 9:25am Daddy Day Care 11:05am Corpse Bride 12:30pm Khumba 2:05pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 3:50pm Believe 5:35pm Lassie 7:25pm Khumba 9:00pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 10:45pm Daddy Day Care 12:20am Believe 2:00am Chimpanzee The story of a baby chimpanzee in the wild.

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3:30am Lassie

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8:05am Gunsmoke 9:10am Gunsmoke 10:15am Hostile Guns 12:05pm Tarzan's Fight for Life 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan Goes to India

Greek general Thermistocles leads the charge against an invading Persian army.

7:00pm In Secret 9:00pm 300: Rise of an Empire 11:00pm The Zero Theorem 1:00am When the Lights Went Out 2:30am The Trials of Cate Mccall 4:15am Return to Nim's Island

Jock Mahoney's debut as Tarzan rescuing elephants from a newly built dam that breaks.

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7:45pm Seven Days in May 10:00pm No Way Out 12:10am Rollerball 2:25am No Way Out 4:20am The Defector

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BBC TWO 8:00am Saints and Scroungers 8:45am Helicopter Heroes Down Under 9:15am Channel Patrol 10:00am Great Continental Railway Journeys 11:00am Claimed and Shamed 11:30am See Hear 12:00pm BBC News 12:30pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Coast 2:20pm Reel History of Britain 2:50pm The Churchill Obituary

ITV 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 11:55am ITV News 12:00pm This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV News and Weather

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CH4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am According to Jim 8:10am King of Queens 8:35am King of Queens 9:00am Frasier 9:35am Frasier 10:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Car S.O.S 1:00pm Channel 4 News Summary 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Four in a Bed

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CH5 8:50am Noddy in Toyland 9:00am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:15am Peppa Pig 9:25am Peppa Pig 9:35am Toby's Travelling Circus 9:45am Bananas in Pajamas 10:00am Tickety Toc 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:10pm Cowboy Traders 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours

SKY 1 6:00am Stargate Atlantis 7:00am Brainiac: Science Abuse 8:00am Inside RAF Brize Norton 9:00am All Aboard: East Coast Trains 10:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00pm Hawaii Five-0 1:00pm Hawaii Five-0 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles

3pm 3:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 4:00pm Inside RAF Brize Norton 5:00pm Futurama 5:30pm Futurama

3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm Mel and Sue

3:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:10pm Countdown 5:00pm Deal or No Deal

3:15pm NCIS 4:20pm Lethal Obsession

6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Antiques Road Trip

6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV News and Weather 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street

6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Simpsons 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News

6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cowboy Builders

6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Futurama 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons

9:00pm The Great British Sewing Bee 10:00pm Wolf Hall 11:00pm Up the Women 11:30pm Newsnight

9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:40pm Bring Back Borstal

9:00pm The Restoration Man 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm Bodyshockers

9:00pm North Pole Ice Airport 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Age Gap Love

9:00pm The Fanatics 10:00pm 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy 11:00pm Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

12:15am Weather 12:20am David Starkey's Magna Carta 1:20am See Hear 1:50am Posh People: Inside Tatler 2:50am This is BBC Two

12:40am I Never Knew That About Britain 1:10am Jackpot 247 4:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA4:45am Nightscreen

12:00am The Undateables 1:00am Launched at Red Bull Studios 1:30am Ramsay's Hotel Hell 2:20am Transamerica 4:05am Kirstie's Best of Both Worlds 5:05am Hugh's 3 Good Things 5:10am Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not

12:00am Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side 1:00am Trauma Doctors 1:55am Super Casino 4:10am Botched Up Bodies 5:00am Michaela's Wild Challenge 5:25am Divine Designs 5:45am House Doctor

12:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 1:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00am Hawaii Five-0 3:00am Hawaii Five-0 4:00am Road Wars 5:00am Stargate Atlantis

BBC THREE

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8:00pm Top Gear 9:05pm Bangkok Airport 10:00pm Blades of Glory 11:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 12:00am Family Guy

8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm The Real Bonnie and Clyde 10:00pm Could We Survive a MegaTsunami?

11:00pm Jackpot 12:20am Horizon

10:15am Psych 11:10am The Chase 12:15pm All Star Family Fortunes 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:40pm You've Been Framed and Famous!

2:45pm Psych 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:55pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

7:30pm You've Been Framed!

8:00pm You've Been Framed Rides Again!

9:00pm Along Came Polly 10:50pm The Hot Desk 11:00pm Keith Lemon: The Film 12:45am Cockroaches

1:00pm Murder, She Wrote 2:00pm Heartbeat 3:00pm Where the Heart is 4:10pm The Royal 5:15pm Never the Twain 5:50pm Rising Damp 6:20pm On the Buses 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 9:30pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 10:00pm The Secret Life of Cats 11:00pm Collision 12:00am Law and Order

10:20am Hogan's Heroes 10:55am Magnum, P.I. 11:55am Minder 12:55pm The Professionals 1:55pm Alias Smith and Jones 3:00pm Magnum, P.I. 4:00pm I Want That Car 5:00pm Hogan's Heroes 5:30pm Hogan's Heroes 6:00pm Highway Patrol 6:30pm Africa Cup of Nations Live 9:30pm Pawn Stars 10:00pm The Blues Brothers 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Blues Brothers 12:40am Basic

3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm Rules of Engagement 4:30pm Rules of Engagement 5:00pm New Girl 5:30pm Suburgatory 6:00pm How I Met Your Mother 6:30pm How I Met Your Mother 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube 9:00pm Drillbit Taylor 11:05pm The Big Bang Theory 11:35pm The Big Bang Theory 12:00am Marry Me

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3:50pm Churchill 4:50pm The Red Beret

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6pm 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show

9pm 9:00pm Pets - Wild at Heart 10:00pm Churchill 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm The Holocaust: A Story of Remembrance

12am 12:15am The League Cup Show 1:00am The Mexican 2:55am Weather for the Week Ahead 3:00am BBC News The latest national and international news stories, followed by Weather.

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12:22am Family Guy Animated comedy about the everyday trials and tribulations of American family life.

12:44am Family Guy 1:06am Family Guy 1:30am Crims 2:00am Excluded: Kicked Out of School 3:00am Bangkok Airport 3:55am Who Needs Ibiza?

The world is affected by an obesity epidemic, but why is it that not everyone is succumbing?

1:20am Could We Survive a MegaTsunami?

2:20am Return to Betjemanland 3:20am Sounds of the 70s 3:50am Arena

SKY MOVIES Action 7:00am Kindergarten Cop 9:00am 3.10 to Yuma 11:10am Lone Survivor 1:20pm The Top Ten Show 2015 1:40pm X-Men: The Last Stand 3:35pm Déjà Vu 5:50pm 3.10 to Yuma 8:00pm X-Men: The Last Stand 10:00pm Lone Survivor 12:10am Con Air 2:20am Déjà Vu

Comedy 7:25am Black Sheep 8:55am Wedding Daze 10:30am Little Shop of Horrors 12:10pm Get Smart 2:05pm Employee of the Month 3:55pm About a Boy 5:40pm Austin Powers in Goldmember 7:20pm Wedding Daze 9:00pm Get Smart 11:00pm About a Boy 12:45am Employee of the Month

7:40am Swordfish 9:25am 25th Hour 11:45am Magic Magic 1:35pm The Da Vinci Code 4:05pm The Washington Snipers 5:50pm Swordfish 7:40pm 25th Hour Drug-dealer Monty Brogan is going down for seven years.

10:00pm The Da Vinci Code 12:30am The Canyons

7:00am The Neverending Story 8:40am Spy Kids 10:10am Dennis Strikes Again 11:30am Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1:30pm The Lego Movie 3:15pm Spy Kids 4:45pm Oz: The Great and Powerful 7:00pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 9:00pm The Lego Movie 10:50pm The Last Keepers

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8:00am Gunsmoke 9:05am Gunsmoke 10:10am The Story of Will Rogers 12:05pm Tarzan Goes to India 1:50pm Gunsmoke 2:55pm Gunsmoke 4:00pm Tarzan the Magnificent 5:40pm Solomon and Sheba 8:25pm The Fearmakers 10:00pm On Deadly Ground 11:55pm Finder's Fee

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1848: James W Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento, California, thus sparking the California Gold Rush which would see more than 300,000 prospectors head west to seek their fortune.

1896: Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling plus costs for driving at eight miles per hour, exceeding the speed limit of two miles per hour.

1901: The Victorian era in Britain comes to an end with the accession to the throne of King Edward VII following the death of his mother Queen Victoria. He serves as King until his death in 1910.

1965: Sir Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90 with his family by his bedside. He had been Prime Minister of England during the Second World War and oversaw the defeat of Nazi Germany.

1971: Idi Amin leads a successful coup and becomes President of Uganda. His reign until 1979 is characterised by human rights abuses, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings and corruption. It is estimated that between 100,000 and 500,000 people were killed as a result of his regime.

1986: The Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley.

1986: The space shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after taking off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, killing all seven astronauts on board.

Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher who won a competition to go into space, is among those killed.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.’

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You realise this week how liberating it is to share your thoughts and feelings with someone close. It is not always easy to do this, until you realise everyone has them.

Some hopes and dreams are more attainable than others, of course, and someone has to find out which are which.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) After a relaxed weekend, it might prove difficult to take up the reins of work again. However, midweek sees you trotting along happily and minding your own business when someone stops you in your tracks. When a challenge is issued, your natural stubbornness comes to the fore.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) With a mind as sharp as a needle, you spin through the week, weaving your own charming spell. A bit of extra confidence works wonders for your mood. Something that you read sets you thinking about doing some writing or creating something artistic, perhaps even a musical.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Although energy is not high, there is the need to have some kind of challenge. With the brain active, it is an ideal time to plot and plan your next moves. Maybe something that has been delayed might now be advanced. You find it hard to choose between opportunities.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The imagination stirs and the heart races at a suggestion this week.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 United, 2 Winged, 3 Sounds, 4 Advice, 5 Notion, 6 Owners, 7 Wagons, 8 Reacts, 9 Warned, 10 Niches, 11 Meekly, 12 Massed, 13 Hammed, 14 Charms, 15 Greedy, 16 Stormy, 17 Dreams, 18 Slayer, 19 Regard

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January 22, John Hurt, 75, actor Renowned British actor of both stage and film, Hurt won critical acclaim for his role as John Merrick in the 1980 David Lynch movie The Elephant Man. Hurt has appeared in Midnight Express, Alien and V for Vendetta.

January 22, Steven Adler, 50, drummer Original Guns n’ Roses drummer who was fired by lead singer Axl Rose because of his heroin addiction. Adler was a childhood friend of fellow band member Slash and learned how to play drums in high school.

January 24, Neil Diamond, 74, singer Diamond has sold over 125m records in a career that has spanned five decades. He is best known for his hit songs Sweet Caroline and Kentucky Woman. He is considered the

January 27, Mohamed Al-Fayed, entrepreneur Egyptian-born businessman who has his fingers in many pies, including department stores, hotels and sports franchises. His son, Dodi, died alongside Princess Diana in Paris in 1997 when their car crashed in a tunnel.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Reading the small print or being sure what is offered in a personal encounter is most important this week. Leave nothing to chance or you could be out of pocket.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A suggestion made by you recently did not seem to be taken seriously.

This week, however, negotiations could be opened. Circumstances change and it may seem someone gave up too early. Bide your time and even hold your tongue when someone in a strong position spouts rubbish.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Being over-generous with cash midweek could see you making a poor move. Perhaps someone needs to be more hardworking or perhaps less of a spendthrift.

Propping up a bad habit would be doing them no favours.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Confidence in a close relationship should be maintained. Possibly someone who envies your position would like to see discord. A matter of spiritual or religious faith is questioned, but the answer comes more clearly and sharply than you would have thought.

Your strong intuition tells you it is the right thing to do.

Origins of famous company names: 1. The name of which German multinational lighting manufacturer is derived from the words for ‘osmium’ and ‘tungsten’?

2. What name for a member of a race of brutes resembling men in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, was chosen by its founders as the name of their widelyused web search engine?

3. Which American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain is named after the chief mate on the whaling-ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick?

4. Which American multinational corporation whose products include athletic footwear, sport equipment and other athletic and recreational products is named for the Greek goddess of victory?

5. Which British-based supermarket chain was founded as Associated Dairies and Farm Stores Ltd in 1949?

6. Which early web search engine took its name from the Spanish for ‘high view’?

7. Which German corporation that designs and manufactures sports shoes, clothing and accessories is named after its founder Adolf Dassler?

8. Which global luggage manufacturer and retailer takes its name from an Old Testament judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines?

9. Which Manchester-based sportswear supplier was founded in 1924 by brothers Harold and Wallace Humphrey?

10. Which Taiwanese electronics corporation that produces PCs, tablets and smartphones, took its name from the Latin for ‘sharp, acute, able and facile’?

Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case M) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

third most successful adult contemporary artist in the history of the Billboard chart.

January 26, Jose Mourinho, 52, football manager The self-proclaimed ‘chosen one’ is the current Chelsea manager after returning for a second spell at the helm in 2013. He has won numerous league titles and trophies as manager of various teams, including Real Madrid from 2010 to 2013.

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1. OSRAM (OSram and wolfRAM), 2. YAHOO, 3. STARBUCKS, 4. NIKE, 5. ASDA (ASsociated DAiries), 6. ALTAVISTA, 7.

ADIDAS (Adolf (ADI) DASsler). 8. SAMSONITE, 9. UMBRO (hUMphrey BROthers), 10. ACER

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Time is precious this week because you are in demand. A chance lost in the past presents itself again but won’t be too easy. Holding back just a little makes you more desirable.

A want to travel could be cramped by financial considerations. If making extra money is too difficult, consider sharing something of value with someone else.

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January 25, Xavi Hernandez, football player.

Xavi is one of the most decorated players in Spanish football history and was named World Player of the Year in 2010. The midfield maestro has played with Barcelona his entire career and made his first team debut in 1998. Considered one of the greatest central midfielders of all time, he won the World Cup with Spain in 2010.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 December 21) An emotional cut-off from the past is not as bad as anticipated.

Indeed, it confirms in your mind who you are and what your place in the world is. Inherited traits knit easily with your present life and bring contentment.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) An investment made recently is built upon and brings peace of mind.

Finances do need consideration but more in the long than the short-term.

Much is happening in the background that does not require your attention but, all the same, be aware.

Good: 23 Very good: 33 Excellent: 40

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION arvo, aver, derv, deva, dove, even, ever, nave, neve, nova, oven, over, rave, rove, uvea, vane, veer, vend, drove, evade, nerve, never, novae, raved, raven, reave, revue, roved, vaned, venue, avenue, devour, evader, nerved, oeuvre, vender, vendor, overdue, ravened, endeavour, ENDEAVOUR

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Gone Girl tells the story of Nick Dunne, who on his fifth wedding anniversary reports that his beautiful wife Amy has gone missing. Under pressure from investigating police officers and with rapidly growing media interest in the case, Nick’s tale of a loving, blissful union begins to crumble.

Soon, Nick’s increasingly bizarre behaviour and his lies and deceits soon have everybody asking the same question: did Nick Dunne kill his own wife?

Directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike and Neil Patrick Harris. Run time 149 minutes.

Rated R.

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Funagram Unscramble the name of a famous 1994 film (two words): FLIP INTO CUP Unscramble the name of a famous London landmark (two words): BIG WORD TREE

FUNAGRAM SOLUTION: PULP FICTION, TOWER BRIDGE

Play on Words EAR EAR WET (7) 7 Tense, confused youngsters (5) 9 Charges from coffee shop’s price list (4) 15 She’s an official prosecutor in the States (3) 16 Not in Bournemouth (3) 18 I’d plunged into river to find spear

(7) 20 Streets confused the examiners (7) 21 The French port is dull (6) 22 Ammunition is worn out (4) 23 Schoolmaster needs to cover Tristram Shandy author (6) 24 Two prepare to take the strain (5) 26 In the middle of sinners (5)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 22 represents H and 26 represents Y, so fill in H every time the figure 22 appears and Y every time the figure 26 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Source of light (4) 4 Strange (8) 8 Rough (6) 9 More close (6) 10 Amusing quip (4) 11 Caught by surprise (8) 13 Small (6) 15 Tried out (6) 17 Arriving at (8) 20 Waste scraps of cloth (4) 21 Plan (6) 23 Modifies (6) 24 Functions (8) 25 Unwell (4)

Down 2 Express regret for a fault (9) 3 Having no faults (7) 4 Exert a pushing force on (5) 5 Close interaction (7) 6 Smallest amount (5) 7 Consumed (3) 12 Lively (9) 14 Apparent (7) 16 Sharp piercing cries (7) 18 Shout of approval (5) 19 Destinations (5) 22 Flat, brimless hat (3)

English - Spanish The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

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IT ALL Answers: Wet behind the ears, Getting away from it all

Across 1 Extreme to cut off Spain (6) 4 Cabinet near the opening (6) 8 Bill free of bitterness? (5) 10 Destroy copse area (5) 11 Upstanding characters from Crete (5) 12 Polish hens I replaced (5) 13 Snare criminal and get warrants (5) 14 Craftsman pictured with mother and child? (5) 17 Has a role in contact sports (4) 19 Eccentric reveals change in America (4) 21 Lives on the French streets (5) 24 I’d point after British newly-wed (5) 25 A-list characters’ dogs (5) 27 Digs a poem about British capital (5) 28 In front of a leader (5) 29 Called oriental area (5) 30 Agent I find feeding (6) 31 Could end in bear’s whiskers (6) Down 1 Bird and water found in Wales (7) 2 Opera-lover did hold opera composer (5) 3 Buy back, but firstly register every detail, except extra money (6) 5 Attend silent composition (6) 6 Southern courage, without a whip

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Starter, 5 Sober, 8 Avocets, 9 Arras, 10 Event, 11 Sweater, 12 Shares, 14 Berate, 17 Amiable, 19 Stand, 22 Rears, 23 Terrace, 24 Dress, 25 Rodgers.

Down: 1 Slate, 2 Atone, 3 Trestle, 4 Resist, 5 Stave, 6 Biretta, 7 Reserve, 12 Starred, 13 Agitate, 15 Ensured, 16 Heater, 18 Busts, 20 Aware, 21 Diets.

QUICK Across: 1 Differ, 4 Defeat, 9 Shorten, 10 Turns, 11 Range, 12 Examine, 13 Unnecessary, 18 Arrived, 20 Apple, 22 Among, 23 Nothing, 24 Answer, 25 Writer.

Across 1 Caracol (5) 4 Sombra (zona sin sol) (5) 7 Margarina (9) 8 See 16 Down 10 Bacalao (3) 15 Alcachofa (9) 17 Half (5) 18 Discutir (5) Down 1 Room (in a house) (4)

2 Brazo (de persona) (3) 3 Parrot (4) 4 Cicatriz (4) 5 Friend (5) 6 Plano (llano) (4) 9 You (5) 11 Granja (4) 12 Leisure (4) 13 Mouth (4) 14 Hueso (4) 16/8 Huevera (3,3)

Down: 1 Desire, 2 Frown, 3 Extreme, 5 Extra, 6 Earlier, 7 Tastes, 8 Independent, 14 Nervous, 15 Scatter, 16 Banana, 17 Beggar, 19 Vague, 21 Point.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Encontrar, 8 Igual, 9 Stain, 11 Seta, 12 Piso, 14 Paja, 16 Wrap, 19 Agree, 21 Ahora, 22 Centuries.

Down: 2 Nouns, 3 Owls, 4 Test, 5 Asa, 6 Limpiar, 7 Envasar, 10 Tap, 13 Owe, 15 Above, 17 Rent, 18 Pair, 20 Rie.

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THE annual Academy Awards are consistently the source of endless column inches, debate and controversy. From lengthy gushing speeches, wardrobe malfunctions, undeserved winners and presenter faux pas, the Oscars each year never fail to generate some sort of gossip.

With this year’s nominees recently announced, we take a look back at some of the most memorable Oscar moments.

1. Only in Hollywood can an actress win both an award for best performance and an award for worst performance in the same year, but Sandra Bullock managed to in 2010. She won her Oscar for The Blind Side, but the day before had been awarded a Razzie (recognising the worst in film) for her performance in All About Steve.

2. After decades of directing some of the best films of all time, somehow Steven Spielberg was perpetually ignored when it came to Oscar time. He was finally recognised in 1993 for Schindler’s List, grabbing the Best Director award and Best Picture award. Similarly, Martin Scorsese one of the best directors of the century didn’t get an Oscar until 2007.

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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and passes the time staring out the window.

A daily signal stop allows her to briefly catch a glimpse of the same couple breakfasting on their terrace. Rachel begins to feel like she knows them, and even gives them imaginary

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names while imagining their perfect lives. But one morning Rachel sees something shocking.

The train moves on, but Rachel can’t forget what she saw. She goes to the police and soon becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, and in the lives of everyone involved. Has Rachel done more harm than good?

4. Gwyneth Paltrow had audiences around the world squirming in their seats during her lengthy acceptance speech for Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love in 1999. Unable to contain her tears, she blubbed, weeped, sobbed and wailed her way through a long list of people she needed to thank and blathered on vaguely about her upbringing. Cringe.’

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3. In 2013, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane as presenter - managed to upset half the celebrity audience by cracking tasteless, inappropriate jokes and then launching into a song and dance routine called ‘We Saw Your Boobs’ about actresses doing nude scenes in movies.

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Sudoku Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

5. At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Italian director Roberto Benigni stole the show when he won the award for Best Foreign Language Film for Life Is Beautiful by being unable to contain his pure, unbridled joy.

He clambered all over the backs of seats in front of him

and behaved like a giddy schoolboy, endearing himself to all who witnessed it.

6. The Oscar ‘selfie’ with host Ellen DeGeneres and a multitude of top A-list Hollywood stars in 2014 became the most Tweeted photo ever and has been valued at nearly $1 billion (€850 million) to phone maker Samsung.

7. Jennifer Garner lost the run of herself when she clumsily tripped on her dress while making her way to the stage to accept her award, but nicely recovered by stepping up to the microphone and informing the crowd: “I do all my own stunts!”

8. At the sixth Oscars in 1934, presenter Will Rogers announced the Best Director winner by shouting: “Come and get it Frank!” But there were two Frank’s nominated. Frank Capra dashed onto the stage only to find the winner was actually Frank Lloyd.

9. George C. Scott won the Best Actor award at the 43rd Oscars for his role in Patton, but summed up the ceremony as “a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”

Talk about ungrateful.

10. The television world sees Samuel L Jackson mouth “Aww s***!” when he is beaten for the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Pulp Fiction.

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The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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Average: 19 Good: 25 Very good: 36 Excellent: 44

While robbing a home a burglar hears someone say “Jesus is watching you.” He turns and realises it’s the pet parrot mimicking something it had heard.

“What’s your name?” asks the burglar.

“Moses,” says the parrot. “What kind of person names their parrot Moses?” scoffs the burglar. “The kind of person who names their Rottweiler Jesus,” replies the parrot.

SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point • 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points • 7 letters: 4 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION setup, spits, dials, letup, letups, lutes, pulse, idles, input, idols, gluts, gulps, gouts, upset, dorsal, aloud, audit, ogles, odors, oodles, staid, stain, stout, stouts, stood, satin, slain, eagle, eagles, joule, jolts, route, routs, flats, flout, flood

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Erica Russell Watson:

Dear Erica I’m Spanish and a regular reader of EWN and I would like to say to Erica Russell how much I love her column ‘Health and Beauty.’ It is the first page of the newspaper I read.

I like the way she writes and her positive attitude about everything. How much good she does to everyone who reads it. She is an example to everybody in her situation.

I pray for her complete cure of her illness and I wish her the very best for the New Year 2015.

Alborada Laorden, Palma de Mallorca

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14th January THE Christmas tree and decorations have been taken down and it is time to think about the year ahead. Whilst I love Christmas, I also feel a sense of relief when the festive season is over.

It’s like turning over a new leaf. I’m not one for making New Year resolutions, preferring to face the year ahead with optimism, clear the decks and start afresh.

I have been feeling better than I did after my second chemo session because I have maintained a healthy appetite and even put on weight, but I have a bad chesty cough which I note has been harder to shift than normal. Before I became

Dear Alborada I was so thrilled to get your letter and very touched that you should take the time to write to me. Thank you for your kind words and good wishes. The very best for you and your loved ones for 2015. Warmest regards Erica sick I would shake off any illness in a blink of an eye and have hardly ever taken medication in my life. However, I cannot risk my cough becoming more serious, so I have had to resort to antibiotics which I dislike.

My arm is very sore. The trauma of the operation is coming out as the sensation returns to parts of my right arm previously blissfully numb and ignorant!

I move my arm but must not lift anything heavy. It is quite hard when you have been a strong independent person disciplining yourself to do most things with the left arm or ask for help. I dislike the fact that racket sports appear to be off my list too. I will review that later on!

It is all to do with preventing my arm from swelling up as I no longer have an operative

lymphatic system on my right side.

I continue to receive many messages of love and support from all sorts of people. I am constantly asked how I feel psychologically. I remain the same as always, upbeat and positive. Sometimes I question it. Maybe I am not giving this cancer thing due deference?

Well too right I’m not! I disregard it. I understand that I

am going through a treatment process, but it is just another stepping stone and with time it will come and pass just like everything else in life. Physical pain is one thing, but emotional trauma is another ball game.

If you can keep an even course and avoid confrontation, stress and sadness you will be better equipped to fight off anything. Most things in life are dependent on your state of mind and your heart.

Keep head and heart strong and you will give yourself the best chance whether you are fighting an illness or otherwise.

In two weeks I will be going in for round four of chemotherapy.

My hair only fell out three weeks ago and it has already started to grow back, a very impressive fuzz I might add! Utterly incredible and saves a fortune on hairdressing and shampoo!

Keep looking for those silver linings!

I will sign off now as it is late and my body is telling me to go to bed… she who must be obeyed! If anyone wishes to write to me or ask any questions I am only too happy to help.

Wearable technology of interest to the health and beauty market WEARABLE technology is fast entering the mainstream, particularly in the areas of health and fitness.

According to marketing consultants Mintel’s recent Healthy Lifestyles - UK, 2014 report, 31 per cent of UK adults are interested in using a smartwatch with

fitness functionality and 40 per cent are interested in wearable devices that track heart rate, blood pressure and movement.

However, despite constant innovation in healthcare when it comes to wearable tech, the beauty category remains a fairly untapped market.

A skin-like medical device developed by researchers at the Northwestern University and University of Illinois could change this.

The device uses wireless technology and thousands of tiny liquid crystals on a flexible substrate to sense changes in thermal properties of the skin.

The device stretches and compresses as the skin moves, making it ideal to wear during the day. As nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of UK consumers used some type of body care product in the last year and 54 per cent agree it is important to moisturise, this is key in the body care category.

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New study shows that happy children become healthier adults in later life HAPPY children are reported to go on to become healthier adults.

A Finnish study found that children brought up in a loving home who do not go without and eat healthier foods, have better cardiovascular health in later life than deprived children.

The study found participants with the most

advantages in youth scored higher on an ideal cardiovascular health index in adulthood than those from an unhappy or more deprived background.

They had a 14 per cent greater chance of not being overweight and were 12 per cent more likely to be a non-smoker.

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Working long hours could make you hit the bottle WORKING more than 48 hours a week leaves you more susceptible to becoming a heavy drinker.

The European Working Time Directive gives people the right to work no more than 48 hours each week, including overtime and a new study has found that working over those hours can lead to ‘risky’ alcohol consumption. ‘Risky’ consumption is classed as more than 14 alcoholic drinks for women and 21 for men, raising a person’s risk of liver disease, cancer, stroke, coronary heart disease and mental health problems.

The study was carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, on the association between long working hours and alcohol use. Their study analysed 333,693 people across 14 countries and found that longer working hours increased the likelihood of higher alcohol use by 11 per cent.

Researchers said that no differences were seen between men and women or by age group, socioeconomic status or region.

It’s cold viewing FEELING cold can be contagious as research says that just looking at somebody shivering is enough to make us feel cold.

The study involved 36 people who watched eight videos of actors putting their hands in warm or cold water. As they watched, the temperature of their own hands were measured, which dropped as they watched the cold videos, but did not change when they watched the hot videos.

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ECKY BAKER is a beautiful young woman living under a death sentence.

The 30-year-old has cystic fibrosis - those afflicted with the genetic disease have an average life expectancy of 35 and knows the clock is ticking.

The petite blonde has lost several friends to the disease in the past few months. Her own health has deteriorated to the extent she has to carry an oxygen supply around with her as her lungs are functioning at only 28 per cent of their capacity.

She readily admits that being a CF sufferer is difficult, but her attitude to life and living with the disease is inspirational.

Becky is making sure she lives life to the full; there is no sitting back and feeling sorry for herself.

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BECKY BAKER: Her attitude to life is inspirational.

Becky, who has lived in Spain since the age of 12, said : “I am a positive person. People with CF tend to be very sensitive and value every minute of life because they

know it could be taken away from them at any moment.”

Now she wants to publicise the disease, for which there is as yet no cure, in a bid to help raise funds for research into it.

When she had to withdraw from a sponsored parachute jump for health reasons, she decided to do a para-trike microlight aircraft flight instead. That raised £1,000 for CF research. To that can be added £2,000 she had previously raised by singing in gigs with her band.

Becky’s latest plan to raise money for CF research - and in many ways one of her lifelong dreams - is to record her own CD. “It will have songs that mean something to CF sufferers, and will raise money for research.”

Do you know someone who needs publicity to raise money for charity? Maybe it is someone who is working against the odds, who perhaps needs help themselves. Send your stories to editorial@euroweeklynews.com.

Assisted reproduction a success in Spain AROUND 3 per cent of all babies in Spain are born through assisted reproduction techniques.

The figures come 30 years after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) was introduced in Spain.

It is estimated about 20 per cent of

women will have difficulty falling pregnant naturally and in Spain, assisted reproduction has a success rate of around 60 to 70 per cent with more couples turning for help in conceiving. Dr. Antonio Alcaide, director of Clinical Laboratory

Reprofiv, said: “Now couples are very diverse, both socially and in the reasons of infertility origins, but we are seeing more patients where the problem is age.” He added: “Ultimately biology does not accompany the desire to be a mother.”

BABIES: To receive three doses of pneumococcal vaccines.

Big step forward for vaccinations THE National Health System Council has approved modifications of the vaccination calendar for children to include pneumococcal vaccines that protect against bacteria which can cause pneumonia and meningitis.

Three doses of the vaccine will be given to babies during their first year, the first at the age of two months, another at four months and the final injection when they reach the age of one.

Health Minister Alfonso Alonso said that having a vaccination calendar is a big step forward. Vaccines against human papilloma virus to protect against cervical cancer have also been brought forward from the age of 14 to 12.

The council approved regulations to a Strange Disease Register to improve investigation and assistance for the three million people in Spain that suffer from one of 7,000 infrequent illnesses.

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Mike Walsh Mike, based in Mediterranean Spain, is an international journalist, author and professional writer.

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recall having my arm twisted to accompany a companion to a working men’s social club in my old home city. I knew what to expect and I was still disappointed. Although I was no chicken, I simply didn’t relate to the ‘coffin-dodgers’ I found myself in the company of that evening.

Though my companions would have been in their early or middle 60s, they were in most respects old men. Any zest for life had long departed; their getup-and-go had got-up-and-went.

The table talk that evening was very much of their past and their invariably mundane working lives. Having not expected much of their lives they weren’t disappointed either.

Much of the chat that evening focused on the past lives of the sadly departed.

“I hear old Ted has gone.”

“Yes, Marge and I attended his funeral. It was Billy Jones the week before.”

“Ah yes,” someone interrupted. “Billy! How old was he. I hear that Harold is very ill.”

“Never, Horace too I believe. I don’t think he'll make it, poor devil.”

I shared their age group. Had anyone thought to ask me what my future plans were my eyes would have shone with excited anticipation. Eagerly looking forward to retirement, I would soon burn my bridges, load my car and press the re-start button for my new life in Mediterranean Spain.

I knew exactly what I wanted: With a glass of wine and a beautiful woman close to hand I could scribble away to my heart’s content. Seven years later I am living my dream. Me and my pacemaker, my cardiologist says,

Copyright Robert Kneschke

You only live twice, so enjoy it

SENIOR CITIZENS: Many are full of the joys of spring. are good for another 30 years at least.

Had I that evening asked my companions what they had planned for the future they would have been incredulous. These

‘elderly’ men were resigned to their no longer having a future.

Like old diary pages their future was all used up. That evening I looked balefully at a 1953 faded photograph of Her Maj’ hanging

on the smoke-stained social club’s walls. I then looked despairingly at my watch.

Now, as I plan my years ahead, so too do many in my circle of Costa friends. Many are older than me, yet their zest for life would put to shame a teenager.

I recall a gentleman in his 80s calling me to discuss his biography. As we chatted he told me he managed a golfing club and looked after ‘old folks’ gardens. “Maybe you should consider retiring,” I smiled.

“I can’t do that,” he chortled. “I have a wife and 14-year-old daughter to support.”

Recently when dining out my elderly companions were full of the joys of spring. “Your parents are enjoying themselves,” a fellow diner smiled.

Not many say such things to you when you are picking up your pension. It seems to me that life has little to do with numbers on birth certificates, but more on good health and a positive perspective.

I am not my brother’s keeper A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

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ANIA SANCHEZ is Izquierda Unida’s IU’s probable candidate for the regional presidency in next May’s ections.

She is also in a spot of trouble although it’s all a misunderstanding, the Madrid regional MP insisted. It was coincidental that contracts awarded by the town hall where she was once a councillor went to Aupa, a cooperative where her brother is Administrator.

She had no idea that he was with Aupa as she no longer lives in the family home in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Sanchez declared when it came to light. Sanchez obviously subscribes to the ‘I am not my brother’s keeper’ school, but it’s a strange family whose

Time to choose, it’s me or chaos CHOOSE me or choose chaos, Spain’s president Mariano Rajoy is telling the electorate.

Opinion polls show Rajoy and the PP lagging behind Podemos and the PSOE so now he is playing the fear-card. In fact most of the fear emanates from the two national parties who, following the demise of Adolfo Suarez’s UCD, have alternated in power since 1982.

The last Metroscopia poll had Podemos on 28.2 per cent, the PSOE on 23.5 per cent and the PP on 19.2 per cent.

Rajoy is more afraid of abstention than leaking PP votes to Podemos, sources say. He fears

that “our people” won’t turn out come polling day, but that is the least of his worries.

Convinced PP voters will still vote for the party although they weren’t sufficient to give Rajoy victory in either 2004 or 2008.

The voters who put Rajoy in the Moncloa Palace voted PP for the first time in their lives, expecting an easy way out of the economic crisis. They are the ones that Rajoy must win over or win back if he wants to return to the Moncoa for a second term.

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members have so little knowledge of each other’s doings. Tania Sanchez’s own ménage isn’t what you’d call typical, however. Her partner is

Pablo Iglesias, secretary general of Podemos, the new political party that is currently flattening the PP and the PSOE, not to mention IU.

MARIANO RAJOY: Worried about obtaining votes.

Ancient history JIHADISTS are obsessed with Spain, referred to as AlAndalus and which they

intend to reconquer for the Caliphate.

It was once theirs, they believe, conveniently forgetting that the Moors immediately lost ground following the Reconquest that began in 1238. Overall the Romans stayed longer, from 218BC to 409AD, but thankfully Italy has so far refrained from claiming territorial rights.

Keeping tabs THE Interior ministry will set up an airline passenger data base to identify potential terrorists and other criminals attempting to enter Spain.

The European Parliament warned that this type of Passenger Name Record (PNR) violates EU regulations but few will worry about that.

Who cares if Jorge Fernandez Diaz and his minions know how, when and where they acquired their own tickets if it keeps killers out?

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Marathon broadcast in aid of Keira

AN expat radio DJ is trying to break the Spanish record for the longest continual live radio broadcast.

And it is all in aid of Keira Alvarez Turner, a seriously ill little girl who has featured in the pages of the Euro Weekly News.

Shorty B from Heat FM is attempting to break the record by broadcasting live for 30 hours. The marathon show will start at 8am today, Thursday, January 22.

Now Shorty B is looking for sponsors and for people to make a donation to help Keira, aged seven, who suffers from a variety of conditions that leave her needing expensive specialist treatments.

To sponsor the breakfast DJ or make a donation email sales@heatfmspain.com or phone the studio on 602 210 210.

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A good natter HAVE you tried to learn Spanish but given up?

Why not try something different - actually speaking and listening to Spanish people? No matter how little you know, practising and listening will quickly and easily help you to learn more. The Conversation Club in La Nucia, organised by the town hall urgently needs English speakers. It is a chance to make new friends and talk to each other. The club meets in the Centro Juvenil, Avenida Marina Baixa, La Nucia every Thursday at 5.30pm and is free.

Talk about UFOs INTERESTED in Unidentified Flying Objects?

Then there is a club for you on the Costa Blanca.

The Moraira UFO discussion group meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month from 6pm to 8pm at the Jacaranda Bar on the corner of Calle de Mar de Timor and Camino de Viejo del Portet.

Next meeting is on January 22.

More information: morairaufogroup @gmail.com

Bargains galore at the flea market!

ANIMAL protection society PEPA will once again have a permanent stall at the Novetle Rastro (flea market).

It is open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 2pm. As well as the PEPA stall selling lots of bargains there are many more stalls with a wide variety of goods on sale.

The undercover Rastro is on the Novetle industrial estate.

Donations of goods from people living in the Xativa area are welcome.

They can be taken to the market, or call Carol Moir on 722 473 053, or email her on cmoir3@yahoo.co.uk.

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WHEN it comes to getting a family pet it is easy to fall in love with a puppy or kitten.

It takes a special person to adopt an adult pet. But there are many advantages to rehoming a mature dog.

One of those is knowing what you are getting. That adorable puppy may well grow into a huge adult dog and you can never be certain what disposition it will have.

With a grown pet, what you see is what you get, but it is important to remember what you might not see is your new pet’s past. It has learned to live in an environment

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Cally registered as both a house-sitter and as a homeowner to find sitters for herself.

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which may be very different to the one you can offer. That is why it is important to follow a few rules when helping an adult dog settle in.

First things to show him are where he is to sleep, where fresh water is always available, and when and where he is to be fed. He will need to be taken outside at frequent intervals (every hour or two) so he can relieve himself as

TIME TOGETHER: It takes a special person to adopt an adult dog.

accidents can happen until the pet is settled in.

If the dog does make a mess in the house firmly say ‘NO!’ and take him outside instantly. But it is important to catch the dog in the act as a few minutes later is too late as he won’t associate the reprimand with a past event. On the other hand praise him every time he goes outside.

You can expect some problems initially. Your pet doesn’t know you or what is expected of him.

Plan to spend time with your new family member.

They will appreciate it.

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OLIVE trees are part of the Mediterranean landscape Olive trees have been part of the Mediterranean landscape for six millennium since cultivation started in Egypt, Greece and Crete.They have been in Spain for more than 2,000 years since the Romans planted the first specimen trees in courtyard gardens and olive groves.

Some still exist and

millennium old trees fetch big prices when dug out and sold to international landscapers, often back in the Middle East where the trees first came from.

Attraction and uses of olive trees Their attraction is their many uses and in our valley where most forms of agriculture have been largely abandoned the one traditional crop still sustained by some families is that of the olives. The 21 uses we can think of are: 1. Pickled olives for eating as a snack, in salads and cooked dishes.

2. Olive pate.

3. Olive oil as a healthy vegetable oil. Naturally the

OLIVE TREES: Pickle olives for eating as a snack.

quality and quantity of olives and olive oil produced depends on more than the weather. Winter pruning, the cutting off of suckers that come up from the roots, and winter to autumn sprayings with ecological leaf and root

fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides are of benefit.

4. As a frying oil with its antioxidant properties.

5. Olive leaf infusions as the natural components in the leaves are said to have antioxidant, antibiotic, antiaging, and anti-cancerous properties.

6. Logs for the fire and wood burning stove.

7. Small twigs as fire lighters.

8. Leafy ends of branches are a treat for rabbits, sheep and goats.

9. The fresh residues from pressing can be fed to poultry, sheep and goats.

10. If dried, the residues

help get an open fire going or in log burning stoves.

11. If the oil is separated from the water by gravity when using an old style cold press, the final layer of oil is contaminated with pieces of mashed olives.

This rough oil can be used to clean and oil tools, wooden utensils and other artefacts.

12. Logs of all sizes, especially from old trees, are excellent for turning and carving.

13. For the gardeners who want to do none of the above, olive trees make excellent evergreen specimen trees or groups of trees for vision, wind breaks and shade.

14. Although not widely used these days, one can still use oil lamps for a subdued light. But beware the flame is smoky so only use for an outside light .

15. Straight branches can be used as supports for tall vegetables such as beans, tomatoes and peppers.

16. Selected branches can be dried to use as

replacement handles for gardening tools.

17. Thick branches are long-lasting so they can be used to make rustic arches, fences and gates.

18. Leafy prunings can be used as pea sticks.

19. Continuing from ancient times olive oil is still used as a skin softener, for toning athlete’s muscles and mixed with vinegar as a suntan lotion.

20. Garlands made from young olive branches can be placed on the heads of victorious athletes at medal ceremonies, as was done at the early Greek Olympics.

21. Planted as attractive grey/green evergreen leaved trees.

For those that do not yet have an olive tree, if you plant a young tree in the garden now, it could still be there in the year 3000 when there is nothing left of your house except for a few broken roof tiles.

Varieties of olive trees to choose from - there are over 250!!

Arbequines - full flavour but lowish yield of oil Manzanillas - popular for eating Sevillanas/Queen/Gordal - large for eating Piqual Martoelles Blanqueta - Small, but good yield Gordal Empetrte Chefarengues, Couicabre, Moriudes, Verdial Lastly, olive trees can be grown in containers on apartment terraces and balconies as well as specimens in the garden or in small and large olive groves. They can be pruned hard to maintain neat, small or moderate trees or left to grow wild. (c) Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com January 2015

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Slowdown in price decline brings ‘cautious optimism’ THE rate of price falls for Spanish property slowed to an average 3 per cent in 2014.

This was a big improvement over 2013 when homes lost 9.2 per cent of their value. The

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IMPROVEMENT: Property price falls could cease in 2015. figures from the General INIE and Major Markets Indices cover both new and second-hand homes.

It puts prices for housing at around the same level as July 2003 and 41.2 per cent lower than the peak in 2007 just before the housing price bubble burst.

According to property analysts Tinsa, the signs are that the decline in prices could finally stop in 2015 if economic forecasts are met, employment stabilises and more mortgages are granted.

The number of home loans given has been rising over the last few months and the jobless rate is starting to dip, even though it is still at a very high level of more than 23 per cent, but there is cautious optimism starting to creep back into the housing market.

The immediate future for the market looks rosiest on the costas and in major cities.

THREE out of every 10 homes sold to the Spanish were paid for in cash.

This is according to a survey by property website fotocasa.es, which also revealed that 62 per cent of purchasers used a mortgage to pay for the property, and 6 per cent used other forms of financing, such as an inheritance or gift.

The average spend on a home was €246,000, with a flat costing an average €142,000 and a townhouse €333,000.

By age, the group spending the most overall was the 35 to 44-year-olds (38 per cent) followed by 25 to 34-year-olds (26 per cent) and then the 45 to 54-year-olds (24 per cent).

More than half of buyers (56 per cent) were married and 88 per cent had a job, with 6 per cent unemployed on benefits.

Home sales up by 14 per cent NOVEMBER saw year on year (YoY) sales of homes in Spain rise by 14 per cent to 25,200, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE).

That was the third month in a row to see a rise, with September sales up 13.7 per cent YoY and October seeing 16 per cent more.

But month on month November sales were down 4.8 per cent, the sharpest decline in five years for November.

But overall it was a

good year for the property market. In November the YoY increase was due to a big increase in the number of second-hand houses sold, up 41.6 per cent to 17,433.

New home sales on the other hand were down 20.6 per cent to 7,767 YoY. Andalucia led the way in the numbers of transactions (5,319), followed by Cataluña (3,849), Valencia (3,590) and Madrid (3,042).

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It’s all in the name of luxury ANYONE wanting to buy the top of the range SUV will have to wait for Bentley’s latest offering.

The Crewe-based luxury car maker is still keeping tight-lipped about what will be its latest offering, when it goes on sale in 2016.

All that it has revealed is its name the Bentley Bentayga - and a promise that it will “combine pinnacle luxury and performance.”

The ground-breaking luxury SUV is set to be revealed to the world later this year and the car manufacturer says the “sector-defining” SUV will be able to “introduce Bentley’s renowned modern British luxury to limitless destinations with an impressive combination of on and off-road performance.”

The name for the fourwheel drive is said to be inspired partly from the founder’s name and partly from the natural world. That is the Taiga in the north and also to the south, the rugged peak of the Roque Bentayga in the subtropical Canary Islands.

The car is supposed to reflect the rugged beauty of both areas.

Wolfgang Dürheimer, Chairman and CEO of Bentley Motors, said: “Bentayga is a name that reflects what we know our SUV will do better than any other car in the world - combine the best automotive luxury with outstanding performance to take the Bentley experience to new environments.”

Giving the C class extra oomph with launch of V6 AMG model THE Mercedez-Benz C Class has already won itself a reputation as a fun, easy to drive car.

Now car buyers will have the option to go for power with the launch of its V6 AMG sports model.

The new C 450 AMG 4MATIC expands the product range of the performance and sports car brand of Mercedes-Benz with what the company calls “an attractive entry into the world of AMG.” There is plenty of power and great roadholding thanks to the combination of a 367 horespower 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 engine with a permanent Performance all-wheeldrive system and sophisticated suspension technology adopted from the Mercedes-AMG C 63.

Available as a saloon and an estate model, it was unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show, and is planned to be in showrooms this coming summer.

Even at first glance, the characteristic AMG body styling leaves no doubt that this model is part of the Mercedes-AMG model family. Another indication for the new model strategy is found in the form of a special AMG badge on the front wings. From an engineering point of view, the AMG sports models deliver on the visual promise of a sporty character with a

SPORTS MODEL: An attractive entry into the world of AMG.

powerful engine, the standard-fit allwheel drive system and sophisticated suspension solutions.

In addition to the Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 AMG Coupé, the C 450 AMG 4MATIC represents the second stage of the new model initiative.

Tobias Moers, Chairman of the Board of Management of MercedesAMG GmbH explains: “With the C 450 AMG we present the second sporty and emotionally expressive vehicle in our product line. It combines the power of a strong twin-turbo V6 engine with a high level of emotional expressiveness, and avails itself of the technical DNA of the new C 63.

“The new sports models represent a convincing proposition for our customers: sports car technology and motor racing fascination become more attainable and in the process appeal to a broader customer base.”

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Javea Green share top spot AN EIGHT to four win against San Miguel means Javea Green Bowling Club share first place in the league on points with San Luis.

Javea’s top scoring rink was Alan Phillip’s team with a score of 27 to seven followed by Sheri Fletcher’s team with a winning score of

MARC COMA: Has won his fifth Dakar Rally title.

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Coma, riding a KTM, finished ahead of Paulo Goncalves (Honda) and Toby Price (KTM).

Winning the last stage was Ivan Jakes, with Coma coming in fifth, which was enough to take the title. He won his first Dakar in 2006, then again in 2009, 2011, 2014 and now this year.

Another Spaniard, Laia Sanz, 29, finished ninth overall, the best place ever for a female rider.

22-14. Brian Manser’s team won 19-16 and although Nick Cole’s team led for most of the game, they couldn’t keep the momentum going and lost by a mere two shots.

Likewise Clive English’s team also lost by two shots, so a perfect score of 12-0

El Cid get back to business THE second half of the Northern League season for both El Cid teams, the Swords and Shields, is well under way with two games in four days.

The first match saw the Swords take on the Shields with the Shields coming away with an eight points to two win.

The best result of the day was by Lynn Eldon, Yvonne Briden and Derek Eldon who took an impressive 38 to eight victory. That result helped the team come away with a 90 shots to 54 win.

Just four days later the Shields took on the Finca Guila Swifts at El Cid, taking a six points to four win.

Once again the best result of the day went to the Eldons/Briden team this time by 46 shots to eight.

Montgo golfers fight the wind at new competition MONTGO Golf Society played their first ever bogey competition at Oliva Nova, kindly sponsored by two new members, Wolfgang and Edith Schuster.

Whilst the conditions were quite calm as the players set off, a cold wind developed and was quite strong by the time the last groups arrived at the last hole.

The course seemed to be playing quite long and the majority of players were probably disappointed with their final scores.

However the winner was not, as Robin Thatcher

AT OLIVA NOVA: Montgo’s first bogey competition. finished with the only positive score of plus 1 from his handicap of 17.6.

The next three places were decided on handicap as they all finished at minus 1 with Mick Farmer (10.4) second, Steve Crossan (17.7) in third

place and Keith Cottrell (22.9) finishing fourth, his first podium placing.

There were four nearest the pins on offer and these were won by Shaun O’Gorman, Bo Bjelke, Simon Fox and Eddie Beattie.

was so near and yet so far.

There is no room for complacency as Quesada remain in third place, only five points behind the leaders.

Javea Green’s Berleen team, skipped by Jim Fletcher, had an excellent win of 21 to seven.

In the northern league Javea’s Opal team played their Onyx team and won eight to two.

Greg Sperring’s team won easily 21-10, Brian Walker’s team likewise with a score of 19-13.

This, juxtaposed with two teams bringing in a draw of 16 each secured the overall win.

Unfortunately the Challengers lost.

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Denia to host international golf contest INTERNATIONAL PAIRS, the world’s largest golf club competition, is moving to the Costa Blanca.

After 17 years of staging the event in Scotland, the World Final will be hosted in Spain for 2015. Patrick Mulcrone, director of Golf Frontiers, stated: “Moving the event away from the ‘home of golf’ was not an easy decision. After discussions with our overseas partners it was decided that with inclement weather conditions over the last three years, the world final should be moved to a more stable climate.”

International Pairs World Final 2015 will be hosted by the Hotel Denia Marriott La Sella Golf Resort and Spa between October 28 and November 1, 2015.

Jérôme Gateau, general manager of the Hotel Denia Marriott La Sella Golf Resort and Spa, said: “We are delighted that our resort and course will host the International Pairs World Final in 2015. We are excited that La Sella has been chosen as the first venue to stage this event outside of the United Kingdom. Every effort will be made to ensure we meet everyone’s expectations.”

Clubs from around the world will be represented, from the USA, South Africa, UAE and Nigeria to name but a few. Now in its 18th year, International Pairs can boast that over a million golfers have participated in the event.

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FA Cup 4th Round Chelsea’s Oscar will be in action against Bradford City who beat Millwall in a replay.

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Orba visit La Galiana THE Orba Warblers made the first visit of many to the spectacular golf course at La Galiana.

With ideal conditions for golf, it was the top division that showed the way home. The continual improvement shown by

Colin Harris has propelled him rapidly through the divisions and this week he showed how far he has come with a score of 39 points to top the division. Second place went to Fred Cooley with 37 points and in third was David Knight scoring 36.

The second division did not fair so well with 35 points being the best score on the day by David Edwards. There were four players on 30 points but countback resolved the ties in

Fifth Dakar title

ORBA WARBLERS: Made their first visit of many to the spectacular golf course. favour of Malcolm Robinson in second and Barbara Pollitt taking third.

Nearest the pin were Glynn Braidley, Chris Hoare and Sylvia Mortensen.

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Jim Rodgers had a two on the 14th and Robin Wheatley took Derek Gray’s birthday prize.

The next game for the Warblers is at Alicante on Wednesday January 28, the first tee will be 10am.

Book in with Sheila on 965 070 267 or Arthur on 965 581 351. The Annual General Meeting of the society will be held on Thursday, January 29 at La Sella Golf starting at 10am.

DEFENDING champion from Spain Marc Coma has won his fifth Dakar Rally motorbike title.

The win puts him level with Frenchmen Cyril Neveu and Cyril Despres and one behind their compatriot Stephane Peterhansel for the number of titles won in the gruelling event.

Despite its name, this year the race finished in Baradero, north of Buenos Aires in Argentina, on Saturday (January 17).

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